Top African American Quotes Collection
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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.Collection: African American
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.Collection: African American
In every crisis there is a message.Collection: African American
If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.Collection: African American
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!Collection: African American
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American isCollection: African American
It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say this seriously - I hope that's based on substance and not the fact that he's African-American.Collection: African American
You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.Collection: African American
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, "I have to work with whites.Collection: African American
I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.Collection: African American
I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more like my private thoughts that I never thought I would be able to articulate - I never thought I would be able to express publicly.Collection: African American
I'm an American; I'm not an African-American. I'm an American.Collection: African American
I have a lot of African-American friends.Collection: African American
If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.Collection: African American
The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.Collection: African American
Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.Collection: African American
Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor native judgment than members of better educated groups. Thus, they need stricter moral guidance from society.Collection: African American
Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.Collection: African American
While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.Collection: African American
I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.Collection: African American
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.Collection: African American
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.Collection: African American
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.Collection: African American
I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.Collection: African American
My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.Collection: African American
Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans.Collection: African American
The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.Collection: African American
African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.Collection: African American
Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at raising international awareness, the better off we've been at realizing solutions to our own problems.Collection: African American
We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.Collection: African American
I identify as African American. I identify as Black. Black is something I share with other descendants of Africa, African-American is something I share with other Black descendants of America and both of those identities are of equal importance to me.Collection: African American
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.Collection: African American
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.Collection: African American
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.Collection: African American
When I got my success I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.Collection: African American
The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.Collection: African American
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.Collection: African American
Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.Collection: African American
I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.Collection: African American
And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker.Collection: African American
Now goverments are a different thing. Presidents who do not want me. As I said, an African-American discriminates against an indigenous Bolivian. Well, they have their reasons, but sooner or later we will all be judged.Collection: African American
Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.Collection: African American
Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.Collection: African American
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim cultureCollection: African American
I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".Collection: African American
Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.Collection: African American
When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?Collection: African American
I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-American.Collection: African American
Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up.Collection: African American
It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.Collection: African American