"The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the…" — Ida B. Wells

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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… — William Wells Brown
• The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being.… — Malcolm X
• Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans… — Thurgood Marshall
• I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps… — Malcolm X
• Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was… — Helen McCrory
• In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really… — Sugar Ray Leonard
• The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the… — Harryette Mullen
• The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man… — Ida B. Wells
• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. — Ida B. Wells
• It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the… — Malcolm X
• Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch… — Colson Whitehead
• I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be… — Miriam Makeba

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