America Quote by Cornel West

In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be…

— Nell Irvin Painter

“Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindians and Mexicans, the exclusion of women, the subordination…

— Cornel West

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with…

— Amiri Baraka

We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the…

— RaMell Ross

“One way to see the constructed nature of reality is to notice how the definitions of different "races" change historically, by including groups at…

— Allan G. Johnson

There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.

— Barack Obama

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists,…

— Anthony Braxton

While I might not have a specific experience that is fully American, there is still a knowledge, something that I logically understand as a…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

— Toni Morrison

Europe and the first world to which the United States belongs remain mostly white for now, and the third world, although mixed, contains a…

— Amy Wax

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared,…

— Archibald MacLeish