“In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Baptist evangelicals in the South as well as throughout the country were deeply opposed… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American. — Yaya DaCosta Copy Share Image
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
A man is a man, until that man finds a plan, a plan that makes that man, a new man — Dred Scott Copy Share Image
Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money, — Greg Oden Copy Share Image
I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
First, of all, it isn't black talk, it's African American talk, and you should'nt be talking like that at all Samantha, it's… — Charlotte York Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts.… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
I don't want our white working class sisters and brothers to feel as though their pain is not important because it is.… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There is a certain subset of African American sports announcers, anchors and analysts who are always ready to spring into action and… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson 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
Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
