African american Quote by Bill Frist

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

— Mary Landrieu

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

“This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white…

— Anonymous

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

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

— Malaak Shabazz

For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

From their resilience through the brutalities of slavery to the ongoing fight for equity, African Americans have played a critical role as the economic…

— Al N. Green

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two…

— Le Corbusier

“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It was, for…

— Steven Johnson

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 Black experience in America now includes everything, all the way up to being the president of the United States.' But there's genres for…

— Cord Jefferson

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