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
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
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 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
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
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
The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s.… — Tim Meadows 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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 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
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old. — Grace Jones 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
