I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are… — Angela Robinson Copy Share Image
When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The Academy just reflects Hollywood. And until we break those barriers, until we have African-American or minority studio executives, 'til we have… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That's how 'The Cosby… — Keshia Knight Pulliam Copy Share Image
Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Voters in 1960 elected the first Catholic president. In 2012, I voted to reelect the first African American president. Each was a… — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
I don't see black people as victims even though we are exploited. Victims are flat, one- dimensional characters, someone rolled over by… — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
“Gosnell is African American, and there is a persistent myth that serial killers are all white men. But that’s not true. There… — Ann McElhinney Copy Share Image
African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control. To those, I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“It seems the rate of police killings now surpasses the rate of lynchings during the worst decades of the Jim Crow era.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy… — Pearl Primus Copy Share Image
You can take back all the things you give, But you can't take back the days you live. Life is to some… — Too $hort Copy Share Image
That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say,… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
I do think that it's a responsibility when there are so few of us as African Americans to kind of get to… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Jaeshawn!” I screamed. My hips bucked off the bed, as the sucking grew more intense. I could feel a tightening sensation in… — Jaguar Jonez Copy Share Image
The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced,… — Radmilla Cody Copy Share Image
“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
