Afro American Quotes
19 quotes by 11 authors
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The…
— William Wells Brown
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man…
— Malcolm X
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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the…
— Ida B. Wells
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
— Ida B. Wells
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit…
— Colson Whitehead
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
— Fidel Castro
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Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
— Alexis Korner
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For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro',…
— Nathan Huggins
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the…
— Ida B. Wells
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
— Ida B. Wells
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
— Ida B. Wells
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
— Ida B. Wells
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My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.
— Donald Byrd
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America…
— Malcolm X
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not -…
— Wynton Marsalis
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
— Ida B. Wells
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When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I…
— Robert Wilson
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
— Ida B. Wells
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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.
— Hugh Masakela (b 1939)
Who Wrote These Afro American Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 19 Afro American Quotes as follows: