American Quote by Shelby Steele

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

— Alex Haley

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that…

— Anonymous

“When we let "RACE" to become the narrative in everything we do, then we'll never have an "America" of its true quality, that, "all…

— Henry Johnson Jr

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

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which,…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like…

— Maya Angelou

Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two Americas we're living in. They don't want us to be equal.

— Bam Adebayo

Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have…

— Amy Wax

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but…

— Shirley Chisholm

I believe it's important to have equal opportunities as a black actor. My way of fighting for it is through my art, by not…

— Malachi Kirby

Various people of both gender and race do whatever they can to be equal, though everybody's traits are variously different; if we wish to…

— Ritu Ghatourey