African American Quotes
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African American Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A dream doesn't become reality ...
— Colin Powell
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
— Booker T. Washington
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
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
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
I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon,
— Kendrick Lamar
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
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
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
— Bill Frist
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
