I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher 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
“The defeat that had frightened her in the faces of black men was the defeat of black forever defined by white.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal. — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
African Americans know implicitly that you cannot take freedoms for granted and that democracy is precious. And it's worth fighting for. — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups.… — Hilda Solis Copy Share Image
All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
There are so many families who do not come up in a traditional household. African Americans, Latins, and, I'm sure, whites as… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court… — Leah Ward Sears Copy Share Image
We have African-Americans and black people getting behind the scenes more and more, we get true black images in television and film...because… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
A lot of African Americans, especially men, deal with this as a part of life. I've been pulled over by the police… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
It's often said that you learn more from defeat than victory and the RNC has certainly taken that to heart. After difficult… — Alice Stewart Copy Share Image
African Americans are doing a lot already, but I think we have an opportunity right now to change politics in a way… — David Beckmann Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, war commenced not in 1861, but in 1661, when the Virginia Colony began passing America's first black codes, the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who… — Jim Webb 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
Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're… — Juan Enriquez 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
“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
“I thought I had it all figured out. I thought of racism as an inanimate, immortal system, not as a living, recognizable,… — Ibram X. Kendi 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
“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
“Inclusion on race has been a very different journey, and I worry that for all the progress we have made, we are… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“The attendant looked at Camilo, looked at Link, blandly, incuriously. Link thought, In New York all the black boys who go in… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically. — Ibtihaj Muhammad Copy Share Image
I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color. — Jimmy Gomez 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
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
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
