African Quotes

People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights.

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

It is not a problem. I had been nominated by my country Uganda and the African continent had endorsed me... No matter how much noise the frogs make, they cannot stop a cow from drinking water.

The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30 years from now and say, 'I did it all to make them happy and I didn't enjoy.'

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

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.

I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry

As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

When I got my success I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that might be very, very healthy.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.