I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Financial inequity for African Americans has been perpetuated by companies that are known to have benefited from the institution of slavery. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The United States Justice Department, in my opinion, hasn't done a damn thing to alleviate this horrible manifestation of racism, bigotry and… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans. — Morris Dees Copy Share Image
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
“In 1821, the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to West Africa to buy, on what was known as the “Pepper… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not… — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Copy Share Image
I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of… — Cornell William Brooks Copy Share Image
