African american Quote by Michael C Dawson

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things…

— Ben H. Winters

“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 black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

— Leslie Fiedler

After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black…

— Malcolm X

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who…

— John Henrik Clarke

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year…

— Dick Gregory

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to…

— James Howard Kunstler

We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong - black men - for whatever reason,…

— Ryan Coogler

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the…

— Chuck D

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

— Constance Baker Motley

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The…

— William Julius Wilson