African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“African Americans own 2.7 percent of the nation’s wealth, and make up 40 percent of the incarcerated population.” — Ibram X. Kendi 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
“& 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
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess. — Julianne Malveaux 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
What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans. — Morris Dees Copy Share Image
“invidious is the fact that those ideas about African Americans are unfair and socially debilitating. Some” — John Corvino Copy Share Image
The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced… — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
“The Tuskegee experiments are certainly a good reason for ongoing mistrust, but it is important not to overlook mistrust that is generated… — Clare Xanthos Copy Share Image
The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We decided a number of years ago we could do a better job at diversity. It was going to be one of… — Brian France Copy Share Image
It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically… — Chris Van Allsburg 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
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
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
The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“What, you think if you live next door to them, they'll treat you different?" "Why does it always have to be about… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“In Ugandan society a girl who had reached puberty was eligible for a family-arranged marriage. The groom would bring wealth to the… — Nick Hahn Copy Share Image
It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
“It would be easy to quit if it was just about me, Khalil, that night, and that cop. It's about way more… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Why did God set it up like this?” Rachel asked. “With them as masters and us as slaves?” “There is no God,… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“While appreciating its accomplishments, we must acknowledge that the legal end of segregation fell short of bringing African Americans to full equality.… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
“I have to think about that one for a minute. “Everybody’s pissed ’cause One-Fifteen hasn’t been charged,” I say, “but also because… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not… — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Copy Share Image
“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that… — Clint Smith 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
“That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life.” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's just too easy for a gay black man to drown amid the names of dead black gay men.” — Saeed Jones Copy Share Image
There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.” — Ben Carson 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
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