African american Quote by Leah Ward Sears

There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it,…

— Jill Scott

The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent…

— Sanaa Lathan

No black person married to a white person can speak for me!

— Malcolm X

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that…

— Ike Turner

“In 2006 the federal government expended more than $100 million over a five-year period for marriage and fatherhood education. Interestingly, it is not until…

— Patricia Dixon

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

— Gary Bauer

As long as black women yell about being independent, they will never get married. Marriage and independent is like oil and water.

— Anonymous

After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was…

— Rebecca Traister

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that…

— Randall Kennedy

That happens to a lot of couples. I understand the black history in this country, and regret it, I wish it hadn't happened. See,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Today, I think more than ever before, we have to speak up and speak out to end discrimination based on sexual orientation. Dr. King…

— John Lewis

Having a traditional view of marriage should not be seen as discriminatory, unfortunately the bill has promoted this notion. It has not created tolerance…

— Jim Dobbin