“No one likes being stereotyped, not African-Americans and not cops.” — David O. Brown Copy Share Image
“& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am” — Hanif Abdurraqib Copy Share Image
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future. — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans. — Usher Copy Share Image
To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.” — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed. — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life! — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
When black Britons draw parallels between their experiences and those of African Americans, they are not suggesting that those experiences are identical. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields. — Philip Freelon Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump is going to appeal better to African Americans, Hispanics, and others than previous Republican candidates because he's talking about what… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans. — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
“In the month of his inauguration, 63 percent of African Americans held a favorable view of race relations in America. By July… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“those African Americans who did manage to penetrate the skilled trades mostly were consigned to low-wage work. According to Social Security Administration… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
But at the end of the day, I refuse to believe there arent more qualified African-Americans, women, people of color in general… — Tony Clark Copy Share Image
“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The black officer checks Daddy while his partner glances around at all of the onlookers. There's quite a few of us now.… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“She told him the origins of the “buck dance,” when “white people would come up and say ‘N____r, dance’, and then start… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“I don't want people to think I mind being mistaken for African American. I don't. There are, however, many African immigrants in… — Nadia Owusu Copy Share Image
“And she got the feeling that Boots Smith's relationship to this swiftly moving car was no ordinary one. He wasn't just a… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“Black females, for the most part, know by the time they are ten years old that the world is not much concerned… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“Understanding Metro's history may illuminate today's debates. To conservatives who decry Metro's expense--around $10 billion in nominal dollars--this book serves as a… — Zachary M. Schrag Copy Share Image
“invidious is the fact that those ideas about African Americans are unfair and socially debilitating. Some” — John Corvino Copy Share Image
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