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I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good… — Kenneth Edmonds Copy Share Image
Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
I think the '90s is the reason why I recently had to find natural haircare products to allow my hair to grow.… — Drew Sidora Copy Share Image
I never said I wasn’t Black… I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected… — Raven-Symone Copy Share Image
“George E. Johnson marketed the “relaxer,” a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. According to some estimates, the… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“My point is that bias is not advertised by a glowing sign worn around jurors’ necks; we are all guilty of it,… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have… — Amanda Smith Copy Share Image
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“In 1960, never-married mothers accounted for fewer than 5 percent of the children of single mothers; by 2006, they accounted for 43… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
In popular culture, there is this notion that African-American men and women can't get together, and we're having these issues. I think… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
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They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
There still aren't enough[ roles for women of color]. And I'd say that's the case, not only for African-American women, but for… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite… — Gregory Hines Copy Share Image
I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
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I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
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The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
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I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say,… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
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