African American Quotes

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

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

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

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

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

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

Acting means living, it's all I do.

As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

When I got my success I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that might be very, very healthy.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control. To those, I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump? What do you have to lose?

I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.