African American Quotes

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities.

All Hillary Clinton's done is talk to the African-Americans and to the Latinos, but they get the vote, and then they come back, they say, we'll see you in four years.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African- Americans, Hispanics are living in he'll because it's so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

We have to help African American people that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic American people. We have Hispanic-American people that are in the inner cities and they are living in hell.

Hillary Clinton's done a terrible job for the African-Americans.

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else.

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

I get overwhelming support in the African-American community.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

African-American people adore President Obama.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

I have a lot of African-American friends.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture