African american Quote by Juan Enriquez

Of course it would make far more sense to invest in education and job creation in poor communities of color, rather than spend billions…

— Michelle Alexander

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

— Lynn Swann

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned…

— Henry Louis Gates

We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these…

— Pete Buttigieg

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major…

— William Shockley

The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one…

— Randall Robinson

“African Americans, like other groups, have always tried to translate upward class mobility into geographic mobility, but remain physically and psychically close to the…

— Mary Pattillo

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget…

— Esther Rolle

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

— Ras Baraka

Especially in black communities, we've been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It's crazy. It…

— Ed Reed

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools,…

— James Avery