African Quotes

I get overwhelming support in the African-American community.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

African-American people adore President Obama.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

I have a lot of African-American friends.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.

African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

If somebody comes up and they're African American as Mike is, and they're extremely talented as Mike is, they say, "Oh, yeah, he's the next ..." I think that it points to disparity.

Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb.

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.

In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires.