African american Quote by Anonymous

African American culture is American culture.

— Salim Akil

Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they…

— Malcolm X

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is…

— Glenn Ligon

If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not…

— Wynton Marsalis

My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds…

— Amiri Baraka

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all…

— Barack Obama

Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition…

— Malcolm X

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

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 countries read…

— Ishmael Reed

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

— Wadada Leo Smith

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's…

— Wangechi Mutu

They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the…

— Aml Ameen