Quotes about african-american
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Malcolm X 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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Norman Lear 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.
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Evo Morales 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.
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Pope Francis Don't let anyone rob you of hope.
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Quincy Jones Imagine what a harmonious world it...
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Randall Robinson 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.
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Pele Enthusiasm is everything. It must...
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Kobe Bryant 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.
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Kobe Bryant I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American
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Karl Rove If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.
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John Conyers 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.
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Katherine Dunham 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.
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Hazel Scott I have always respected everyone's...
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Edward James Olmos 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 is
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Cassandra Wilson Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
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Chanel Iman Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.
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Charles Rangel The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
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Bob Marley Don't gain the world and lose your...
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C. L. R. James First of all, Bolshevism represents...
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Barbara Jordan A good compromise, a good piece of...
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Booker T. Washington Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
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Cynthia McKinney African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.
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Angela Davis But at the same time you can't...
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Angela Davis Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Anna Julia Cooper The cause of freedom is not the...
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Rick Santorum I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".
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Rush Limbaugh Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).
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Tim Cahill 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.
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Usher I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans.
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Stephen Ambrose To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
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Susan L. Taylor In every crisis there is a message....