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

I won't react to something just because I'm supposed to, because I'm an African-American — Kobe Bryant

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

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept. — Terry Crews

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans. — Bobby Jindal

I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist. — Terry Crews

A lot of people refuse to do things ... — Nikki Giovanni

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film. — Candice Patton

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country. — Don Lemon

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood. — Denzel Washington

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American. — Yaya DaCosta

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future. — Mary Landrieu

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

Mix a conviction with a man and ... — Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

I have a lot of African-American friends. — Larry Pressler

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that. — Robert Griffin III

The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb. — Rick Santorum

From the point of view of most African-Americans, American independence postponed emancipation by at least a generation. — Niall Ferguson

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. — Zora Neale Hurston

There is no achievement gap at birth. — Lisa Delpit

America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States. — David Scott

Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. — Henry Rollins

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae

If the house is to be set in order, ... — John Hope Franklin

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. — Marian Wright Edelman

I have always respected everyone's ... — Hazel Scott

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

A word to the wise ain't ... — Bill Cosby

We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850. — Marianne Williamson

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated. — Bernie Sanders

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. — Newt Gingrich

One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function. — Paul Beatty

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

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

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence. — Angela Davis

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty. — Gabrielle Union

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

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental. — Suzan-Lori Parks

You can't look forward and backward ... — Coleman Young

People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair. — Tracie Thoms

Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way. — Dorothy W. Cosey

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. — Larry Bird

Passion without purpose is like a shot without a target. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. — Alice Walker

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

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire. — Deion Sanders

I'm an African American. — Teresa Heinz

If I'm moving too fast or coming on too hard... — N.D. Jones

Whose little boy are you? — James Baldwin

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them. — Rand Paul

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do. — Marcus Garvey

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

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks

A dream doesn't become reality ... — Colin Powell

Each one should remember there is a chance for him. — Booker T. Washington

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. — Naomi Wolf

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. — Aberjhani

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies. — Ishmael Reed

Kids without dads are desperate and jealous. Those with dads can be uppity and sharp. — Shawn Stewart Ruff

See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny. — Shawn Stewart Ruff

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT — Eddie Johnson

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

A people without the knowledge of ... — Marcus Garvey

That's how we do it in the black ... — Snoop Dogg

Be careful what you swallow. Chew! — Gwendolyn Brooks

I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?). — Brett Kiellerop-Morris

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American. — Whoopi Goldberg

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American. — Emmanuel Jal

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

All men are dogs, Nichelle, and if you don't feed your dog, you can't be surprised when he's in the neighbor's trash looking for food. — Norian F. Love

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist. — Nat King Cole

Our only hope is to control the ... — Medgar Evers

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. — Rodney Alexander

Lucas, I never wanted children. I just want to be CEO. I want money, power, and on occasion, sex — Norian F. Love

I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. — Lee Daniels

PEOPLE DIE
THEIR ENERGY DON'T! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

In every crisis there is a message ... — Susan L. Taylor

You may be amazed that you are still unique and beautiful as your natural self. Only you can decide if this style is for you. — Monica Millner

If you're born round, you don't come out square — Polow Don

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal. — Cassandra Wilson

Pastor McFucking Bride this ... Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him! — S.B. Redd

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon, — Kendrick Lamar

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

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that. — Bernie Sanders

Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up. — Allison Jones

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

I believe in prayer. It's the best ... — Josephine Baker

Black people are either threats or entertainment. — Darnell Lamont Walker

A growing number of Muslims in America, more than 40 percent are African-American — Charles Bierbauer

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it. — Ida B. Wells

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. — Debi Thomas

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday. — Howard Dean

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. — Bill Frist

The trick set me up. It's that simple. — Shadez

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman. — Julie Delpy

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. — Camille Paglia

Being black has a lot to do with my ... — Willi Smith

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports. — J. C. Watts