African american Quote by Barack Obama

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

— Anonymous

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of…

— Opal Tometi

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad…

— J. C. Watts

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

I think that I've developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community. I think you can see that.

— Donald Trump

We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.

— Malaak Shabazz

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

— Jay Saunders Redding

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to…

— Opal Tometi

African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their experiences to…

— Alan Dershowitz

I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact…

— Jordan Peele

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