African american Quotes · Page 6

If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?

— Garrett Morgan

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

— Michael Jordan

That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires.

— Rush Limbaugh

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

— Ruby Bridges

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

— Tracy Chapman

It's a shame that the people that judge you the most are the people of your own race.

— Sonya Parker

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

— Elijah Cummings

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.

— Howard Dean

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

— Donald Trump

I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate…

— Dave Chappelle

I did not know George Floyd personally, but I am African American just as he is. He is my brother.

— Porsha Williams

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century,…

— Van Jones

I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in…

— Don Lemon

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through…

— Nikki Giovanni

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

— Ras Baraka

I love being an African American female! I love my skin tone & learning about my ancestors.

— Anonymous

I think the '90s is the reason why I recently had to find natural haircare products to allow my hair to grow.…

— Drew Sidora

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

The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the…

— Kerry James Marshall

If you recall when [John] Kennedy passed an edict, 'Every person you hire in the Post Office must be African American,' the…

— Rafael Cruz

I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other…

— Will Packer

We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long…

— William J. Clinton

What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not…

— David Simon

The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb.

— Rick Santorum

Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.

— Russell Simmons

You were put here to protect us. But who protects us from you?

— KRS-One

I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist.

— Terry Crews

Catch Fire, Do Something, Get Excited by Finding Your Purpose In Life.

— Steve Harvey

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

— Julianne Malveaux

Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

— T.I

“For poetry and I are one To separate is to decapitate For my poetry is forever.”

— Kerry D. Brackett

When your Truly ready to die ,then thats when you really become alive !

— Milliton MUNNEY

“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

— Nat King Cole

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon,

— Kendrick Lamar

Only African Guys Can Tell 10 Girls I Love You In One Day.

— Don Kel

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

— Johnny Otis

AN AFRICAN OUTSIDE OF AFRICA IS STILL AFRICAN

— CAMHAJ

My dream is to be able to use the technology that was used in Tanzania 50 years ago.

— Renatus Nsangano