The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg 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
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when… — Tim Meadows Copy Share Image
And different traditions stress different - so then there's that. I talked to an African American who says before she goes into… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule. — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
I want to do things that haven’t been done, including fixing and making our inner cities better for the African-American citizens that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted,… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“In the American way of life pleasure involves comfort, convenience, and sexual stimulation. Pleasure, so defined, has little to do with the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man… — A. G. Gaston Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend. — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“So much was lost—names, faces, ages, ethnic identities—that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take… — Michael W. Twitty 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
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“As the historian David Krugler explains, “African Americans were not so much rioting as fighting back, counterattacking, repelling violence; above all, resisting.”79” — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that… — James McBride Copy Share Image
To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S.… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
“As an African American, I don’t take myself too seriously that I can’t poke fun at stereotypes that used to offend me.… — L.V. Lewis Copy Share Image
People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
“He went on to make a series of preposterous-sounding claims—almost all of which would be borne out in the end: he would… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
