African american Quote by Katherine Dunham

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of…

— Katherine Dunham

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

— Anonymous

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

— Linda Johnson Rice

I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community -…

— Gabrielle Union

Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they…

— Malcolm X

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of…

— Nicole Ari Parker

The number of African Americans in my profession is woefully small; about two percent of architects in the country are black. I'd like to…

— Philip Freelon

When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read…

— Ishmael Reed

African American culture is American culture.

— Salim Akil

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

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

— Donald Johanson