African American Quotes - Page 25

• We know that African American students tend to be relational learners. It's about the relationships between a teacher and student. Students respond well to teachers they know, believe in them, care about them, but also who teach in a matter that elicits a more active approach to learning, rather than just sitting and listening. The research on this is strong and has been available for a long time, but it is not widely practiced. That's a huge obstacle.

  Pedro Noguera

  Teacher, Strong, Believe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Marines estimate that roughly a hundred or 200 women will be interested in going into these jobs - roughly 2 percent of those jobs. Still, this is historic. It's a biggest cultural change in the military maybe ever, probably bigger than integrating the force back in 1948 when African-Americans were no longer segregated in separate units.

  Renee Montagne

  Jobs, Military, Marine

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain for me. And therefore, obviously, the most lessons.

  India.Arie

  Pain, Artist, Musician

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• It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.

  William Finnegan

  Taken, Two, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be given combat missions. 10% of Americans moved in order to relocate for a war job. We as a country accomplished this heroic, nearly miraculous thing, and we have this legacy of policies and agency - how did they do it? How did they fund it? How did they organize it? It is actually an example that we can borrow from very productively to guide us.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Country, Jobs, War

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An African American in a white world. A Jew in a Christian world. A gypsy. A Native American. A Chinese American. Let's say, you were born deprived.

  Gerald Stern

  Christian, Wall, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  Impact, America, Justice

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a test tube and you find out all kind of things in six weeks - where they are from in Africa or Europe. You can prove or disprove the fundamental African-American myth that you descended from a Cherokee great, great grandmother.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Grandmother, Dna, Europe

  "Black Ancestry Matters on ‘Finding Your Roots’". Interview with ALEXANDRA PHANOR-FAURY, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• 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.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Thinking, Get Better

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• I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.

  Julie Delpy

  People, Wish, Sometimes

  "Julie Delpy Says Hollywood Dumps on Women Most: ‘I Sometimes Wish I Were African American’". www.thewrap.com. February 9, 2016.

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• I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office was the CBS daytime shows. I go in and walk into this room which every seat is filled with young African-American boys and girls and they were in their teens. I went, "I'm in the wrong place. Why am I here? What's going on?"So I go in and meet Norman [Lear].

  Richard Masur

  Girl, New York, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use of force against African-American citizens, it's hard to try to rationalize how this cesspool of racism doesn't spill over onto the individual officers.

  Benjamin Crump

  Talking, Justice, Racism

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation with Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, mobile.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.

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• My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that, to create more complicated, multi-faceted roles for African-Americans, especially African-American females. I think it's important.

  Viola Davis

  Husband, Book, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic for me, that's such a mark in my life and my career and then the bonus of just working with my favorite person in the whole world, Whitney [Houston], like her voice just did something to my spirit.

  Brandy Norwood

  Princess, Play, Careers

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Well, what I will tell you is the support from the world - it's not just an African-American citizen. There are people of all different walks of life who are rallying behind the concerns with the that Sandy was treated because what that says to me is that this is an American issue.

  Sharon Cooper

  Issues, People, Support

  "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.

  Warren Ballentine

  Country, Growing Up, Educational

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• Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they're African-American, whether they're white or whether they're Latino.

  Bernie Sanders

  White, People, Lines

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, dealing with the fact that we have more people in jail, shamefully, than any other country on Earth, that I am against the death penalty, Secretary Clinton is not, I think, as people become familiar with my ideas, we are going to do better and better.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.

  Eva Marcille

  Sorry, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• [Hillary] Clinton was able to assemble a winning Democratic coalition out here, beating Sanders among African-Americans, women, among women, and voters from union households, so, unions, women, African-Americans.

  Chris Matthews

  Winning, Unions, Voters

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, American Voters, Voters

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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

  Donald Trump

  Clinton, Latino, Workers

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I think what Donald [Trump] is saying is that it's unacceptable to him that members of the African-American community - and I'm sure he will say this about other communities as well - who live in violence, who are subject of that, or who do not have the educational opportunities that every child in this country should have so they can reach their fullest potential, that that's unacceptable.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Children, Educational

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Black Panther is a historic opportunity to be a part of something important and special, particularly at a time when African Americans are affirming their identities while dealing with vilification and dehumanization. The image of a black hero on this scale is just really exciting.

  Joe Robert Cole

  Hero, Opportunity, Black

  "Oscars So White? Black Panther to the Rescue". Interview with Brandon E. Patterson, www.motherjones.com. February 6, 2016.

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• Of course, we have leaders in the African American community as well that we've all worked with. One of the great rewards of being an activist is that you get to meet all these wonderful people. And there are many unsung heroes. There are so many out there that are good people that are working hard.

  Dolores Huerta

  Hero, People, Community

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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