I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so,… — Matt Kemp Copy Share Image
I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious… — Lee Daniels Copy Share Image
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
You know, it helps having an African American driver behind the wheel. I'm representing that culture and that background. But a lot… — Bubba Wallace Copy Share Image
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“The Jim Crow South,” writes Ira Katznelson, a history and political science professor at Columbia, “was the one collaborator America’s democracy could… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The magazines were born out of a need that my parents saw: that there were no magazines that really spoke to black… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
Every February, we celebrate the heritage and contributions of African Americans in North Carolina and around the country. North Carolina holds an… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
When I was young, I dreamt of being a starlet in Hollywood. But there comes a point in every African American's life… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more… — David Toop Copy Share Image
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Iris is the Lois Lane of 'The Flash.' It's a really special role. Knowing they were willing to offer it to an… — Candice Patton Copy Share Image
There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I'm Kan, the Louis Vouitton don / Bought my mom purse, now she Louis Vuitton mom / I didn't play the hand… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I think the difference between me and some people is that I'm content to do my little bit. Sometimes people think they… — Thea Bowman Copy Share Image
I look in the eyes and I see the heart. As long as it's a human story. I would like to turn… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
“When Africans were kidnapped, trafficked en masse and brutally dragged in chains to work camps in the “New World,” called plantations, we… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research…if we are to continue to leave… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard.… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, Asians are a much smaller 'minority' than African Americans in this country. But because Asians are so successful, college admission… — Mike Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms:… — H. Samy Alim Copy Share Image
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
The national media which I consider to be very racist against European Americans and I think they have caused the incitement of… — David Duke Copy Share Image
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“counterparts. Although the lower-SES average is higher overall, higher-SES white men have the highest reported levels of binge drinking, of any drug… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
“Bonhoeffer's experiences with African American community underscored an idea that was developing in his mind: the only real piety and power that… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
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