African American Quotes - Page 15

• People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

  Janice Dickinson

  People, Doe, Caucasian

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• My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

  Etta James

  Music, Mother, Song

  FaceBook post by Etta James from Aug 28, 2013

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• I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

  Uzo Aduba

  Inspirational, Change, Being Yourself

  "2014 Women Who Dare: Uzo Aduba". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2014.

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• I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

  Danny Glover

  Powerful, Anger, Sleep

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. Mar 31, 2001.

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• 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.

  Chaka Fattah

  People, Benefits, Disability

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• We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

  Lynn Swann

  Sports

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• I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

  Ken Mehlman

  Issues, Community, Presidential

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• I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

  Leah Ward Sears

  Marriage

  "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• 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.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Country, Home, Ownership

  "The Business of Government Hour" with Paul Lawrence, www.businessofgovernment.org. August 30, 2003.

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• Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Opportunity, Doors

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

  Ed Gillespie

  Home, Today, Percentages

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• Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Art, Hurt, Home

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.109, Library of America

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• No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

  George Washington Carver

  Educational, Leaving, World

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.1, University of Missouri Press

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• A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

  Frederick Douglass

  Education, Learning, People

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• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

  Toni Morrison

  Life, Beauty, Thank You

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 06, 2011

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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  Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

  Satchel Paige

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

  Charlie Parker

  Motivational, Music, Humorous

  "Words of Wisdom". Book edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 435, 1990.

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  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

  Prince

  Positive, Beautiful, God

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• Never wound a snake; kill it.

  Harriet Tubman

  Snakes, Political, Enemy

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• Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

  Mike Tyson

  Money, Failure, Boxing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Positive, Strength, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1904*). “Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904”

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