African american Quote by Bill Ayers

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

— Dick Gregory

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at…

— Walter Dean Myers

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve…

— Dick Gregory

I was down in Wilmington, Delaware, doing 'The Desk Set' with Shirley Booth. I was at the DuPont Hotel. I walked out, and there…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were…

— Joe Biden

I gave up eating outdoors in London in the 1990s, when it became impossible to eat at an outside table without a small gang…

— Grace Dent

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve…

— Ray Stannard Baker

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social…

— Kamla Persad-Bissessar

When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn't there, Burger King, etc.

— Peter Morton

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out…

— Daymond John

I always wanted to eat with a Negro,” Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney- assed old white woman,”…

— Janet Evanovich