When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not… — Johnny Otis Copy Share Image
Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, better known as the American Colonization Society was a group… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I'm still an African-American woman in a male-dominated industry, so sometimes you have to deal with… — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
Mom came from what has been called the poorest place in America - Lake Providence, Louisiana. She was born on the south… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
There are so many slices to the African-American experience. I mean, I have the whole ghetto pedigree. My mom was in jail,… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women… — LaChanze Copy Share Image
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive. — Bubba Wallace Copy Share Image
If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
I see 'Cyborg' as probably the most iconic African American superhero within all of the comic worlds. — Joivan Wade Copy Share Image
We're going to bring jobs back to this country. I think that is one of the reasons I'm going to do well… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation… — William Labov Copy Share Image
The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of… — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
“A survey was conducted in 1995 asking the following question: “Would you close your eyes for a second, envision a drug user,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being… — Naya Rivera Copy Share Image
There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
“1. Close Friend, someone who got yo back, yo "main nigga." 2. Rooted in blackness and the Black experience. From a middle-aged… — H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman Copy Share Image
Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most… — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
“these instances bore none of the harrowing features of racially motivated torture, mutilation, and cruelty endemic to Euro-American lynching of African Americans.… — Helmut Walser Smith Copy Share Image
