Top African American Quotes Collection - Page 2
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I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.Collection: African American
That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.Collection: African American
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.Collection: African American
The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.Collection: African American
In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.Collection: African American
African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.Collection: African American
I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.Collection: African American
The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you.Collection: African American
What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.Collection: African American
In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the greatest historians of both African and African-American history, and hired them as consultants. I had them submit what they thought were the indispensable stories, the ones they felt this series absolutely had to include.Collection: African American
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.Collection: African American
The fact that there aren't an abundance of African-American males that are getting lead roles [and] that are getting roles that have prominence on the big screen. [It's] the same thing from behind the camera; maybe even worse. Coming up, when you're black and you want to direct somebody says, "Oh, you're Spike Lee" or "You're John Singleton."Collection: African American
Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.Collection: African American
The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there.Collection: African American
I was born black and female.Collection: African American
When you hear "Seinfield," no one says, "the Jewish comic." You talk about Cedric the Entertainer, you don't say, "African American comedian Cedric the Entertainer." Even Margaret Cho - who's like one of three Korean performers out there - no one refers to her like that. They say, "It's Margaret Cho."Collection: African American
Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).Collection: African American
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.Collection: African American
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.Collection: African American
I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.Collection: African American