African american Quote by Leon Dash

There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption among many…

— Ayana Mathis

“Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to…

— Carter G. Woodson

“I don't want people to think I mind being mistaken for African American. I don't. There are, however, many African immigrants in America who,…

— Nadia Owusu

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

African-Americans are underrepresented.

— Arlen Specter

“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

“The black middle class displays a torn ambivalence toward the situation of the black poor. They sympathetically recognize the harms of racism and targeted…

— Mary Pattillo

“This part of the Obama formula is the most troubling, and least thought out. This judgment emerges from my own biography. I am the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“invidious is the fact that those ideas about African Americans are unfair and socially debilitating. Some”

— John Corvino

“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare. We avoid…

— Michelle Alexander

“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent…

— Mao Zedong

“But class divisions influence criminal justice debates in black communities in less obvious ways as well: they explain, for example, why black elected officials…

— James Forman Jr