In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“What are you speaking over your life right now? If you’re speaking fear, desperation, or scarcity, then that is what you are… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We have to help African American people that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic American people. We have Hispanic-American people… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
After decades of persistent, courageous advocacy - often at risk to their own lives, livelihoods, and safety - African Americans succeeded in… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like… — Anonymous 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
At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not… — James E. Rogers Copy Share Image
I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive. — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama. — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable. Of course when you're a candidate's wife… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people.… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going. — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
