I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring. — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all… — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Copy Share Image
It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Happy Black History Month. Everyone should try and learn about at least one African American daily...not just Martin Luther or Malcolm X. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I realized that with African American people, where we've been blocked from being all that God meant for us to be, I… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
I was filled with rage. These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of ‘targeting’ African-American children, they care about you only while… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
Senator Sessions has opposed protections for LGBT individuals. He's spoken out against Freedom Corps' marriage equality decision. He opposed the repeal of… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
“I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together,… — Jonathan Anthony Burkett 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
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
People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups.… — Hilda Solis Copy Share Image
The numbers in Ohio as well as the rest of the nation make it clear that the African-American communities have been targeted… — Mark Crutcher Copy Share Image
“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison” — Sean Liburd Copy Share Image
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“All of your power is in the present moment. Grounding is the process that helps keep us in the present.” — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
“I think all black people who smile are beautiful You know what it took to get them there?” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president. — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Dream of the land , my soul is from. I hear a hand, stroke on the drum. Shades of delight, cocoa veiw.… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet. — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness. — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“African Americans own 2.7 percent of the nation’s wealth, and make up 40 percent of the incarcerated population.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and… — Thea Bowman Copy Share Image
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity. — Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe Copy Share Image
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
