African Quotes

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.

I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.

It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.

Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker.

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities.

All Hillary Clinton's done is talk to the African-Americans and to the Latinos, but they get the vote, and then they come back, they say, we'll see you in four years.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

Fifty-eight percent of African- American youth don't have jobs.

We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African- Americans, Hispanics are living in he'll because it's so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

We have to help African American people that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic American people. We have Hispanic-American people that are in the inner cities and they are living in hell.

Hillary Clinton's done a terrible job for the African-Americans.

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.

I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.