We need to hire more black police officers in this country because these are good jobs, and African Americans should have their… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
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Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but… — Ben Nighthorse Campbell Copy Share Image
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White liberals are the most racist people I've ever met in my entire life. They define everything by race. They want people… — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
As far as inner cities, I was very strong on the inner cities during the campaign, I think it's probably got me… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans.… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You know what? That's a high-brow comment. It comes from a certain culture or certain kind of Black person. But, what is… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are… — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“The radical philosophy offered, for many African Americans, the most promise. It was predicated on a searing critique of large corporations, particularly… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
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Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
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