Behind Quote by Jalen Rose

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we…

— Langston Hughes

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya…

— Donald Trump

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we…

— Langston Hughes

We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are when they…

— Ed Gordon

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad…

— J. C. Watts

“I hate it when Africans fail to simply celebrate our features, without reminding us of the traumas they carry. Instead of making a contrast…

— Mitta Xinindlu

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

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

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in…

— August Wilson