African american Quote by Xavier Becerra

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

— Lamman Rucker

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a…

— Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

— Xavier Becerra

Go back to the '30s, '40s, '50s, and it was the discovery of heroic interventions, the ability to cure people with penicillin or do…

— Atul Gawande

We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher…

— Norman Lear

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or…

— Edward Brooke

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

— Ed Gillespie

African-Americans are underrepresented.

— Arlen Specter

The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That…

— Bill Maher

I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than the rest…

— Claudia Rankine

I think black women feel an obligatory pressure to be stronger than everybody else, not necessarily to suppress the pain.

— Logan Browning