African American Quotes
I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
That's one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some of the African-Americans - maybe I'll get in trouble again - they don't want to help anybody.
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.
It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.
STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.
Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?
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.
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'
I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
