I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The contributions of influential African Americans have frequently been ignored, underrepresented, and even silenced. — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
“If you believe in a cause, be willing to stand up for that cause with a million people or by yourself.” — Otis S. Johnson 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
“Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips, decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips.” — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
“The literature on African-American men’s health has often been informed by a “health behavior framework” as opposed to a “social determinants of… — Clare Xanthos Copy Share Image
There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Reggie Campbell and Kathleen Goldsmith are participants in an American success story, the unprecedented boom of home-buying by African-Americans in the 1990s.… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, Asians are a much smaller 'minority' than African Americans in this country. But because Asians are so successful, college admission… — Mike Gallagher Copy Share Image
When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard.… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms… — James Avery Copy Share Image
I wanted to set the standard, do the best job possible so that other people would be comfortable with African-Americans flying in… — Guion Bluford Copy Share Image
“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
The magazines were born out of a need that my parents saw: that there were no magazines that really spoke to black… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
“Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“She's scared, he thought. She's scared deaf, dumb, and blind. She thinks I'm going to rape her. I'm due to rape her,… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Consequently, our laws and attitudes have been straining… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“I know that there are some reading this who will sneer. Representation! It’s so soft, so wimpy, so liberal. Well, if you… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“Some people cannot afford to believe that this country isn’t that bad, that as Hillary Clinton said, “America is great because America… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“Another group with a vital role to play in the present crisis is the white Northern liberals. The racial issue that we… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“He went on to make a series of preposterous-sounding claims—almost all of which would be borne out in the end: he would… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“When Hodges was presented to Harmon the next morning for a positive ID, Harmon reportedly couldn’t be sure he was her attacker.… — E.R. Bills 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
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general. — Leah Ward Sears 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
I don't compare myself with only African-Americans... I do not grade myself on a color scheme. — Shelton Benjamin 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
