African american Quote by John Henrik Clarke

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and…

— Danny K. Davis

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

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

“So much was lost—names, faces, ages, ethnic identities—that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take a completely…

— Michael W. Twitty

All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You now come…

— Danai Gurira

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

“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

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then…

— Spike Lee

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

The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.

— Eric Garcetti

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

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