African american Quotes · Page 11

African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

— Bebe Moore Campbell

My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.

— Helene D. Gayle

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I…

— Daymond John

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

— Barack Obama

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for…

— Lee Daniels

“Nationally in 2011, poor whites exceeded the poor African American total by roughly eight million: 19,171,000 versus 10,929,000.”

— Karl Alexander

Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it...

— Damon Dash

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

— Newt Gingrich

There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“It is because of religious dogma, (black health care professional Thelma) Delgado says, that young African Americans believe "God will make a…

— Sikivu Hutchinson in Moral Combat Black Atheists Gender Politics and the Values Wars

In terms of addressing some of the most impacted communities and historically excluded communities - often of color, often low income -…

— Bryant Terry

“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves,…

— N.K. Jemisin

The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study…

— James Heckman

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of…

— Andrew Young

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription…

— J. C. Watts

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy…

— Barack Obama

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what…

— Maya Angelou

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American…

— Maya Rudolph

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter…

— Romare Bearden

When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying…

— Brittney Griner

What we have to do is get the corporations to understand you must include African-American-owned media.

— Byron Allen

To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of…

— Sol Stern

I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.

— Khalid

“But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. I’m happy to have choices. They’re…

— Nicola Yoon

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans…

— Alphonso Jackson

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

— Stephen Ambrose

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

— Carol Moseley Braun

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using…

— Beyonce Knowles

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

— Xavier Becerra

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like…

— Anonymous

In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.

— Mara Liasson

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think that - this is my personal opinion - but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky.

— Tyron Woodley

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

— Mary Landrieu

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a…

— Michelle Alexander

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

— Lynn Swann

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate…

— George Washington Carver

I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist,…

— Janelle Monae

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

— Ken Mehlman