Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny.… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I can understand how someone might read wearing a blonde wig as a desire to be white, but I suspect that the… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
I always thought he gave me that name because I have a kind of outgoing or sunny disposition. And in those days… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I… — Ice Prince Copy Share Image
I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf.… — Harryette Mullen Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995.… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I used to have an afro - like Will Ferrell in 'Semi-Pro.' It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of… — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
A rap pro, do a show, good to go, also Cameo afro, Virgo, domino, I go Rambo, Gigolo, Romeo, Friday night spend… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
I had a great fashion season in September so I told my agent that I would really like to walk the 2015… — Maria Borges Copy Share Image
A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion… — Garth Fagan Copy Share Image
Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
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