African Americans Quotes
Collection of top 68 famous quotes about African Americans
African Americans Quotes & Sayings
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African-Americans are underrepresented.
— Arlen Specter
Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
— Lynn Swann
I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.
— Bobby Jindal
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.
— Bebe Moore Campbell
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
— Yvette Clarke
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
— Mary Landrieu
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!
— Herman Cain
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
— Xavier Becerra
They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
— Lynn Swann
Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
— James Meredith
Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.
— Michael N. Castle
From the point of view of most African-Americans, American independence postponed emancipation by at least a generation.
— Niall Ferguson
I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
— Rand Paul
African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today.
— Michelle Alexander
Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.
— Colson Whitehead
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.
— Henry Louis Gates
The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
— Nikki Giovanni
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
— Ed Gillespie
We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.
— Claire McCaskill
African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.
— William J. Clinton
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.
— Wes Craven
Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.
— Jennifer Granholm
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
— Charles B. Rangel
Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.
— Gene Luen Yang
The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent.
— LZ Granderson
As Americans, preserving the best ...
— Paul Robeson
I am not 'African American' - I am black American.
— John McWhorter
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
— Salman Rushdie
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.
— Nicholas Kristof
You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.
— Chris Tucker
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
— Isabel Wilkerson
It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
— Rand Paul
You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?).
— Brett Kiellerop-Morris
If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.
— Karl Rove
Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.
— Malcolm X
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
— Leah Ward Sears
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.
— Paul Robeson
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
— Martin O'Malley
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
— Constance Baker Motley
African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.
— Cynthia McKinney
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.
— Philip Freelon
As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
— Pearl Cleage
The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.
— Bernie Sanders
As a child, however, I knew so many African Americans working in science, math, and engineering that I thought that's just what black folks did. My
— Margot Lee Shetterly
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time
— Nicole Mones
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.
— Thelonious Monk
I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.
— Assata Shakur
I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
