African american Quotes · Page 9

Fifty-eight percent of African- American youth don't have jobs.

— Donald Trump

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

— June Jordan

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

— Maya Angelou

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

— Gabrielle Union

I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.

— Bubba Wallace

Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

— Susan L. Taylor

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

— Toni Morrison

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

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

— Wes Craven

The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe.

— Michelle Alexander

You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of…

— Leon Brown

Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.

— Michelle Alexander

I see 'Cyborg' as probably the most iconic African American superhero within all of the comic worlds.

— Joivan Wade

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

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have…

— Paul Robeson

They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You…

— Eddie Griffin

One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders…

— Randall Robinson

“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

[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

As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had…

— Clint Smith

... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have…

— Amanda Smith

I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much…

— Herbie Hancock

My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have…

— Ryan Coogler

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

— Mike Tyson

“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

— Angela Davis

I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.

— Madison Keys

A growing number of Muslims in America, more than 40 percent are African-American

— Charles Bierbauer

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

— Wilma Rudolph

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

— Floyd Patterson

“We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.”

— Nicki Salcedo

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

— Constance Baker Motley

“Passion without purpose is like a shot without a target.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

— Yaya DaCosta

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

— Jaden Smith

African American culture is American culture.

— Salim Akil

We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.

— Michelle Obama

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

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