African american Quote by Danny K. Davis

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who…

— John Henrik Clarke

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things…

— Ben H. Winters

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.

— Eric Garcetti

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and…

— Henry Louis Gates

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.…

— John Henrik Clarke

“We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the…

— Timothy B. Tyson

I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to oppress themselves,…

— Trevante Rhodes

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

— Anonymous

I think it's gonna take a sincere empathy and compassion for people of all races, to really reflect and process on the true history…

— Erik Spoelstra

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their…

— Ziggy Marley