African-American Quotes
110 African-American quotes by 96 unique authors
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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
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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
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
— Larry Bird
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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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I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label…
— Herman Cain
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The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
— Hillary Clinton
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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
— Maya Angelou
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I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was…
— Maya Angelou
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There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a…
— Wesley Snipes
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I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen.…
— Rodney Alexander
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I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a…
— Tim Scott
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I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
— Debi Thomas
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I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.
— Ken Mehlman
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I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in…
— Andre Benjamin
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I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar…
— Kathryn Stockett
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I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like…
— Beyonce Knowles
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
— Elijah Cummings
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Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
— Donna Brazile
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Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
— Cassandra Wilson
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I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really;…
— Leah Ward Sears
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I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
— Nikki Haley
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Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for…
— Lee Daniels
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of…
— Gabrielle
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
Who Wrote These African-American Quotes
96 authors contributed a total of 110 African-American Quotes, led by these top contributors: