If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community. — Philip Smith Copy Share Image
My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields. — Philip Freelon Copy Share Image
When black Britons draw parallels between their experiences and those of African Americans, they are not suggesting that those experiences are identical. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film. — Candice Patton Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements. — Curtis Martin Copy Share Image
As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America. — Tracy Martin Copy Share Image
I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Some of my Black sistas don’t know any better, so I’d like to give them some enlightening food-for-thought. Many of them are… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
KFC is not black owned, but it sure knows to market heavily to African Americans - obviously hoping we won-t care about… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
“racism is about the power of a group and in America it’s white folks who have that power. How? Well, white folks… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.” — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black". — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can… — Monique Coleman Copy Share Image
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans. — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“Why, godamit, why did they insist upon confusing the class struggle with the ass struggle, debasing both us and them—all human motives?” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. — Debi Thomas Copy Share Image
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast.… — Malcolm X 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
Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well. — Chanel Iman Copy Share Image
