Convinced Quote by Arthur Ashe

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

— Trey Songz

“We "BLACKS" we have many talents and many great things we can do in life...but we just don't have the ability to try.”

— Ralph Ramovha

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

— Lynn Swann

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it…

— Arthur Ashe

If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off…

— Barack Obama

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long."…

— Langston Hughes

There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a lot to…

— Jerry Pinkney

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would…

— Steven Biko

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and…

— Henry Louis Gates

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated…

— Michelle Obama

The black community can be competitive and cautious when it comes to those we want put on display for the world to see and…

— Karamo Brown