Quotes about african-american
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We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you? Lynn Swann
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We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit. Katherine Dunham
african-american politics culture
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture Mark Steyn
african-american black female
I was born black and female. Lorraine Hansberry
african-american responsible
None of us is responsible for the... Marian Anderson
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As Americans, preserving the best... Paul Robeson
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I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general. Leah Ward Sears
african-american injustice remedy
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it. Ida B. Wells
african-american substance facts
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. Harry Reid
african-american may sometimes
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. Michael Emerson
african-american firsts vote
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote. Rand Paul
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I'm an American. I'm not an African-American; I'm an American. Raven-Symone
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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. Sister Souljah
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That's how we do it in the black... Snoop Dogg
african-american no-excuses young
There's no excuse for the young... Nina Simone
african-american style socialism
Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans. Niger Innis
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Our only hope is to control the... Medgar Evers
african-american south
The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. Mary Landrieu
african-american crow slavery
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. Michelle Alexander
african-american president firsts
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. Harvey Fierstein
african-american peaceful courteous
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the... Malcolm X
african-american sitting diners
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.
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Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music. Johnny Otis
african-american age culture
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.
african-american black use
I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black". Rick Santorum
african-american way slaveholders
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. Stephen Ambrose
african-american style cases
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. Tim Cahill
african-american inheritance half
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century. William Labov
african-american words-of-wisdom new-horizons
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. Zora Neale Hurston
african-american looks flutes
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. Yusef Lateef
african-american defense culture
That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and 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, we’ve progressed as a society, then 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. Kobe Bryant
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I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American
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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. Randall Robinson