We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa. — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't compare myself with only African-Americans... I do not grade myself on a color scheme. — Shelton Benjamin Copy Share Image
Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
To those African-Americans suffering in our country, I say, what do you have to lose? Vote for Trump, I'm going to fix… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
When people try to take your culture away from you, your essence of your culture becomes stronger. It's like even in Africa.… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Although it is common to think of Jim Crow as an explicitly race-based system, in fact a number of the key policies… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Identity is very personal...identity is political. My identity is what is and it is what it's gonna be. And I don't think… — Jamilah Lemieux Copy Share Image
African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
When NASCAR drivers blast one another with their cars out of anger it isn't symptomatic of what's wrong with white people. So… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
“new studies increasingly emphasized that for women, African Americans, and other workers excluded from the early labor movement, Christianity was often the… — Heath W Carter Copy Share Image
“The truth is, white rage has undermined democracy, warped the Constitution, weakened the nation’s ability to compete economically, squandered billions of dollars… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
“The women work because the white folks give them jobs—washing dishes and clothes and floors and windows. The women work because for… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“Overt bigotry, Jim Crow laws and policies, government-mandated discrimination, and the belief in black inferiority have virtually disappeared. Laissez-faire racism, instead, involves… — Thomas Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“But race in the United States is not a tidy matter. Only three of the submitted pieces explicitly referenced the future. Most… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African.… — idowu koyenikan Copy Share Image
“It is the beginning of the year of our Lord 1963. I see a young Negro boy. He is sitting on a… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color. — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country. — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?).” — Brett Kiellerop-Morris Copy Share Image
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color. — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
As African Americans, we always have to fight for inclusion, despite your moral background: Christian, Muslim, Jewish - it doesn't matter. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
![“Identity is very personal...identity is political. My identity is what is and it is what it's gonna be. And I don't think that any information will change that profoundly...I [already] know that I am a Black woman, and a Black woman who has mixed some heritage, like most African Americans.” quote by Jamilah Lemieux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/35b/jamilah-lemieux-61755_african-american_identity-is-very-personal-identity-is-po_967159.jpg)
