African american Quotes · Page 20

“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 think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities…

— Denzel Washington

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and…

— Thea Bowman

There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

— Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.

— Opal Tometi

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

You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them... and, in…

— Ryan Coogler

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have…

— Maya Angelou

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving…

— Xavier Becerra

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by thatWe always try to…

— Robert Griffin III

My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in…

— Brett Kavanaugh

The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like…

— Noam Chomsky

“I believe our education system as a whole has not integrated the histories of all people into our education system, just the…

— Ronald Takaki

“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion…

— Carl Sagan

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

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

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

— Naomi Wolf

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

— Rand Paul

“African Americans own 2.7 percent of the nation’s wealth, and make up 40 percent of the incarcerated population.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

— Jordan Peele

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

— Jennifer Granholm

Dream of the land , my soul is from. I hear a hand, stroke on the drum. Shades of delight, cocoa veiw.…

— Erykah Badu

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

In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.

— Marvin Sapp

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

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

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

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

— Michelle Obama

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is…

— Jimmy Carter

“All of your power is in the present moment. Grounding is the process that helps keep us in the present.”

— Abiola Abrams

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

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

— Jack Kemp

“I think all black people who smile are beautiful You know what it took to get them there?”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

“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

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

— Jennifer Granholm