Quotes and Sayings About African American
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-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
-- Ahmet Ertegun -
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
-- Alexis Herman -
As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
-- Alveda King -
The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities,
-- Andre Carson -
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
-- Andrew Young -
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
-- Angela Davis -
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
-- Angela Davis -
I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.
-- Anita Hill -
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.
-- Anthony Braxton -
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.
-- Anthony Braxton -
With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.
-- Artur Davis -
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.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell -
It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.
-- Bell Hooks -
Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell -
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.
-- Ben Stein -
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
-- Benjamin Banneker -
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.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
The good news is that the American people, not just the African-American community are saying enough is enough. You can`t hold people in custody and suddenly find out that they are dead. You can`t shoot people in the back.
-- Bernie Sanders -
I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we're not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We're all Americans.
-- Bobby Jindal -
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
-- Bobby McFerrin