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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
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I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans. Usher
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To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. Stephen Ambrose
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In every crisis there is a message.... Susan L. Taylor
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If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed. Karl Rove
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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
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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. John Conyers
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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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I have always respected everyone's... Hazel Scott
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Our only hope is to control the... Medgar Evers
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the... Malcolm X
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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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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
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I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film. Candice Patton
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None of us is responsible for the... Marian Anderson
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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. Evo Morales
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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
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The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop. Bernie Sanders
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. James A. Baldwin
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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
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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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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
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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
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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 was born black and female. Lorraine Hansberry
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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
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I'm an American. I'm not an African-American; I'm an American. Raven-Symone
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There's no excuse for the young... Nina Simone
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Imagine what a harmonious world it... Quincy Jones
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We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there. Norman Lear
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The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. Mary Landrieu