Afros Quote by Thurgood Marshall

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

— Anonymous

“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva comments: “[The] melting pot never included people of color. Blacks, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, et cetera, could not melt into the pot. They…

— Debby Irving

“Assimilation and melting into the American pot has always been easier [for white people]. It's very hard for blackfolk to melt into the pot.…

— Chuck D

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

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

— Ida B. Wells

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

— Ida B. Wells

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue…

— Eric Holder

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

— Ida B. Wells

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian.…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be,…

— Eric Holder

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

— Malcolm X

“the Afro-American experience, rejecting the false history, spurious logic, and expedient politics that collapse the situations of Afro-Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and indigenous…

— Barbara J. Fields