African American Quotes - Page 20

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

  Lance Reddick

  Community, Entertainment, Industry

  "Lance Reddick: Life beyond The Wire" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 07, 2010.

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• As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.

  Daniel Sunjata

  Thinking, Light, Color

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• As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

  Octavia Spencer

  Gay, Race, President

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• I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

  Sister Souljah

  Riding, Bills, Columbus

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• I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

  Deion Sanders

  Dog, Passion, Mean

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

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• 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.

  John Lewis

  Mean, Past, Ohio

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• I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.

  Gabrielle Union

  Thinking, Community, Littles

  "'Daddy's Little Girls' Actress Gabrielle Union". "News & Notes" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 9, 2007.

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• I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

  Tracey Ullman

  Character, Reactions, American Character

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• This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

  William Labov

  America, Vocabulary, Different

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• That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Children, Loss, Thinking

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. December 23, 2010.

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• The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

  Tim Cahill

  Style, Cases, Delta

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• As CNN saw our growth in African-American viewership, they affirmed a fundamental truth of news coverage - people will watch you if they see themselves in what you report. It doesn't hurt if the people doing the reporting look like them, too.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Hurt, Cnn, People

  Soledad O'Brien, Rose Marie Arce (2009). “Latino in America”, p.7, Penguin

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• The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

  Octavia Spencer

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

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• I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Moon, Black

  "The Blacker The Berry". Song by Kendrick Lamar, Jefferey Campbell, Zale Epstein, Alexander Izquierdo, Brent Kolatalo, Stephen Kozmeniuk, Ken Lewis and Matthew Samuels, February 9, 2015.

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• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  Omari Hardwick

  Couple, Thinking, Skin Color

  "Omari Hardwick - The 'Kick-Ass'". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. 2010.

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• 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.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Blood, Black, Culture

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• To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Thinking, White, Mainstream Culture

  "Key & Peele: 'That’s what Obama should say'". Interview with Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. October 7, 2012.

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• With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Race, Adoption, Checks

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• 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.

  Johnny Otis

  Age, Culture, Imagine

  "Influential R & B singer, musician" by Randy Lewis, articles.latimes.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

  Johnny Otis

  Want, African American Music, American Music

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• Chairman Priebus set out on an early and historic political outreach plan which called for investing resources early to build the RNC network well before Election Day. And although the elections are still eight months away, all indications are that the money has been well spent. Our message is getting out to the Hispanic, Asian and African American communities. If we can continue to implement this plan, we will be able to save the country from further policy damages at the hand of President Obama and the Democrats.

  Matt Schlapp

  Country, Opportunity, Eight

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

  Judy Woodruff

  Effort, American Voters, Increase

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• The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not aware of how rare it was to be an African American, how rare it was to have four years of training under my belt, and how, even though I could imitate people and fake it, unprepared I was to become a professional.

  Misty Copeland

  Years, People, Fake

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Race, People

  "Empty, ruined and desperate" by Julian Borger, Duncan Campbell and Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2005.

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• We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently alongside Radio One to build their business in the markets we have historically represented including Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia , Raleigh and Columbus. At a time of significant growth in the African American consumer market the addition of the remaining Radio One stations expands our ability to deliver strategic marketing solutions to our agency and advertiser customers.

  Steve Shaw

  Past, Agency, Years

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