African American Quotes
This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
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What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.
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.
To those African-Americans suffering in our country, I say, what do you have to lose? Vote for Trump, I'm going to fix it.
Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an issue we have to look at across the board.
I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.
As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.
I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.
Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.
Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.
In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
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African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.
There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.
I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.
It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.
African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.
Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.
I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.
Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker.