African American Quotes

584 quotes by 373 authors

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it… — Marcus Aurelius
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here… — Pearl Bailey
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do… — Ella Baker
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. — Josephine Baker
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. — James A. Baldwin
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James A. Baldwin
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that… — James A. Baldwin
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door? — Tyra Banks
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. — Dave Barry
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra
I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring. — Glenn Beck
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct… — Mary McLeod Bethune
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. — Mary McLeod Bethune
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. — Larry Bird
From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration… — Mary J. Blige

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