“The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature. No other country in the world imprisons so many of its… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
“Some of us have been hiding, shrinking, betraying ourselves, faking the funk, and playing small for so long that we believe that… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security… — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out… — Herbie Hancock 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
If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
“...(I)t can be stated that the spread of the ideology connecting Africa and black people in general with the Jews has been… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
Funny enough though, despite what Donald Trump has to say and the way African-American people are portrayed so often in media, African-American… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
“public statements condemning segregation, sharply worded telegrams to Washington, and meetings with White House officials—were demonstrably ineffectual. New and more dramatic measures… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one… — Will Yun Lee Copy Share Image
I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
As a female candidate, you always expect that some people will think you are not as capable of being an executive, or… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
“Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are looking at me, and it's… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big… — James Fox Copy Share Image
Remember, Donald [Trump] started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
“One of the most impressive civilizing offensives of the 1990s came from African American communities, who set themselves the task of recivilizing… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I hope that more [African-Americans] decide to play after seeing the things that I was able to accomplish; not only myself, but… — Dontrelle Willis Copy Share Image
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I think that seeing as much support as somebody like Obama as a black candidate running for president in a country that… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
“As those Georgetown scholars say in their 2013 “Separate and Unequal” report, between 1995 and 2009, new freshmen enrollments grew by 197… — Goldie Blumenstyk Copy Share Image
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