African american Quotes · Page 14

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the…

— Henry Louis Gates

I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made…

— Donald Trump

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

— Lynn Swann

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

— Sarah Vaughan

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community,…

— Lori Lightfoot

Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is…

— Leon Brown

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

— Deion Sanders

I think that when Riccardo Tisci wanted to bring more attention to the lack of African American presence on the runway, he…

— Erykah Badu

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after…

— Natasha Trethewey

“I heard a compelling lecture by an African American pastor from the north side of Chicago. He opened his talk with numbers,…

— Jessica Nutik Zitter

You know, Hillary Clinton's out there saying, we need smart diplomacy. We need to do smart power. And that means empathizing with…

— Rush Limbaugh

How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did…

— Rand Paul

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I…

— Harry Belafonte

“Lash had been explaining to her that it's impolite to refer to an African American as a nigga, unless one was another…

— Christopher Moore

'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so…

— Drew Sidora

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

— Morris Dees

I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great,…

— Wesley Snipes

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on…

— Mike Pence

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been…

— Bob Cousy

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

— Ted Cruz

We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll…

— Bernice King

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

— Stanley Crouch

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.

— Julie Delpy

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

— Barack Obama

To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

— Matthew Desmond

The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.

— Kerry James Marshall

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

— Nikki Giovanni

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

— Linda Johnson Rice

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

— Matthew Desmond

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

— Michael Eric Dyson

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

— Karl Rove

I loved the African-American culture, but racism was still a big problem and white America was exactly what I didn't love.

— Mick Hucknall

There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.

— Chadwick Boseman

It hasn't been for a lack of trying. But we really have to analyze in a deeper way why we have these…

— Nina Turner

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic…

— Jeb Bush

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant…

— Nas

I want to thank my managers, Jaime King and Marcus King. Lets live this African American dream. Its beautiful. Im glad Im…

— Jamie Foxx

Being African American and Jewish, I have plenty of ancestors and family members that I can look to for strength and, more…

— Cameron Boyce