If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
“We fold our immigrant selves into this veneer of what we think is African American girlhood. The result is more jagged than… — Ibi Zoboi Copy Share Image
The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Chairman Priebus set out on an early and historic political outreach plan which called for investing resources early to build the RNC… — Matt Schlapp Copy Share Image
We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Marie the Second sported a bright tignon to signal her status and identity. She flaunted her turban, gold jewelry, and a proud… — Martha Ward Copy Share Image
I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is… — Shintaro Ishihara 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
In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
As African Americans, we always have to fight for inclusion, despite your moral background: Christian, Muslim, Jewish - it doesn't matter. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“Within five years, the effects of the civil rights revolution were undeniable. Between 1964 and 1969, the percentage of African American adults… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up! — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The Marines estimate that roughly a hundred or 200 women will be interested in going into these jobs - roughly 2 percent… — Renee Montagne Copy Share Image
I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
