In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts.… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when… — Tim Meadows Copy Share Image
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
“Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.” — Leon Dash Copy Share Image
I don't want our white working class sisters and brothers to feel as though their pain is not important because it is.… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I can't deny that it will be a historic event for an African-American to become president. And should that happen, all Americans… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
“So much was lost—names, faces, ages, ethnic identities—that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes,… — Allan Nairn Copy Share Image
“How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural." Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“When's the election?" "Next Tuesday. Y'all niggers going to vote for me?" A slender snaggle-toothed boy waved his hand in front of… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“Many whites, now proclaiming that science proved that people of African descent were intellectually inferior and congenitally prone to criminal behavior, looked… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
It will be up to each of you to make sure that the young people, African Americans, Latinos, and women, who powered… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that.… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I want to ensure that the people of the 5th District continue to benefit from the sensible economic policies under the leadership… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House -… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans. — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Even in the era of the first black president, racism is still the most intractable issue in USA. Regarding poverty, half of… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Much of the foundation of our criminal justice system is derived from slave patrols and was created when African Americans could still… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
“Problem behaviors potentially are obstacles in both school and labor market, especially for the African American urban disadvantaged. White men, of both… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“She supposed the young colored men of Link's generation couldn't have manners like Mr. Powther's, though she didn't know why. Wars and… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
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