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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… — Mary J. Blige
- Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team. — Bob Cousy
- Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds… — Wole Soyinka
- I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace… — Wangari Maathai
- America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect. — Mitch McConnell
- Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with… — Bobby McFerrin
- My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their… — Henry Louis Gates
- There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
- While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial… — Harvey Fierstein
- Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he… — Jesse Jackson
- Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore… — Rush Limbaugh
- Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States… — Michelle Obama