African american Quote by Cornel West Download Open image “Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.” — Cornel West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare African american African american history African american history month African american inspirational America Black Black america Black history Black history inspirational Black history month Black history month inspirational Black inspirational Black people Inspirational Land Nature People Promised land Wilderness
Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human. — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Ever since the promise of '40 acres and a mule,' we have not delivered for Black people in this country. We have completely stolen… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
The trouble with people these days is that they want to reach the promised land without going through the wilderness. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
In American history, Black people are usually the ones doing the work, pushing the boundaries of what America is supposed to mean, challenging the… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I don't expect everyone to feel the same way that I do about land. For so many of us, the scars are still too… — J. Drew Lanham Copy Share Image
There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.' — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“This popularity extended to Trump himself, who, according to private demographic research conducted at the time, was even more popular with African American and… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
