Quotes and Sayings About African American

Mix a conviction with a man and...
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

#Men #African American #Conviction

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Greatness #African American #Littles

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

#Graduation #College #African American

we are the ones we have been waiting for
-- Alice Walker

#Confidence #Waiting #African American

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

#Country #Home #African American

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

#Opportunity #Missing #African American

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

#Party #Oil #African American

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
-- Andrew Young

#Blessing #African American #Causes

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
-- Angela Davis

#Inspiring #African American #Mind

But at the same time you can't...
-- Angela Davis

#African American

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

#Words Of Wisdom #African American #Existence

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

#Thinking #Community #African American

The cause of freedom is not the...
-- Anna Julia Cooper

#African American #Causes

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

#Men #Interesting #African American

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

#Play #African American #Musician

I am consumed with the fear of...
-- Arsenio Hall

#African American

Clothes and manners do not make the...
-- Arthur Ashe

#Clothes #African American #Manners

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

#Issues #Community #African American

A good compromise, a good piece of...
-- Barbara Jordan

#African American #Pieces #Compromise

I am a regular young man surrounded...
-- Barrington Irving

#Men #African American #Young

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

#Thinking #Racism #African American

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

#School #Knowing #African American

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

#Notebook #African American #Pages

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

#Mean #Lynching #African American

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

#Sight #African American #Challenges

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

#Jobs #Community #African American

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

#People #Community #African American

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

#Wise #African American #Wise Words

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

#Tired #Race #African American

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

#Father #Home #African American