African American Quotes - Page 29

• I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handily revolutionized the political, artistic and historical discourses about America. He created his particular and original language.

  Raoul Peck

  Thinking, America, Political

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• When you hear "Seinfield," no one says, "the Jewish comic." You talk about Cedric the Entertainer, you don't say, "African American comedian Cedric the Entertainer." Even Margaret Cho - who's like one of three Korean performers out there - no one refers to her like that. They say, "It's Margaret Cho."

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Comedian, Three, Korean

  Source: www.themonitor.com

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• For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Attitude, Voice, Political

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Race, Lynching

  Source: medium.com

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• The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.

  Van Jones

  Country, Creativity, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall black African - or African-American built such and such. And you start seeing these character descriptions and seeing that, oh, you're only going in for the ones that are described as your look.

  Mahershala Ali

  Character, Black, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Kids, Issues

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Long, President

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• As far as inner cities, I was very strong on the inner cities during the campaign, I think it's probably got me much higher percentage of the African American vote than lot of people thought I was going to get. We did much higher than people thought I was going to get. I was honored by that.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We have to help African American people that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic American people. We have Hispanic-American people that are in the inner cities and they are living in hell.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, People, Helping

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• "First female president." That's it, and that's nowhere near, by the way, as powerful or penetrating as the first African-American president. I mean, women, yeah, I mean, make the case that they've been victimized. But they can't put themselves in the same shoes as slavery's legacy for example. Now, women might try to make the case. Hillary [Clinton] might try to make the case about not being ought to be able to vote, but it ain't gonna fly.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Powerful, Mean, Shoes

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ideas, President, Female

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how many times they say we are. All the signals that it's a party that tolerates anti-black racism is very clear.

  Van Jones

  Party, Racism, People

  Source: pen.org

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• I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It had to. America could not become America until it dealt with that. And did it deal with it perfectly? No. But it had to confront it.

  Van Jones

  Thinking, America, Lasts

  Source: pen.org

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• I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

  Van Jones

  Native American, Thinking, Community

  Source: pen.org

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• Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at raising international awareness, the better off we've been at realizing solutions to our own problems.

  Michael C Dawson

  Might, Pressure, Gone

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.

  Eric Foner

  Country, Attitude, Black And White

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.

  Cleve Jones

  Gay, White, America

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• You have to understand being an actress, and being an African American actress of a certain hue, I think that you have to be bold with your choices. Even when you're not bold with your choices, have people see it as bold.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The greatest thing to me about Obama is not the individual, it does not have to do with Obama himself - it's really about the people who have elected Obama. It demonstrates that people are ready for change, and I think Obama knows that, because he really came up from the people, the young generation especially. He motivated a lot of African Americans who never voted before to go and vote.

  Damian Marley

  Thinking, Young Generation, People

  Source: www.metabunker.dk

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• Recognition has brought me more work, because your name suddenly comes to mind when some directors are trying to cast a character. And my stage work has specifically enabled people to have faith that I can handle a role, even when it's not specifically written for an African-American. So, I'd have to say that recognition brings work. A successful movie brings more work, and that been the biggest blessing.

  Viola Davis

  Character, Successful, Blessing

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• It's important for women to understand that it's bad enough that we don't make dollar-for-dollar what men do, but when you distill that down to women of color, our Latinas and our African American women, it's even less than that 78 cents.

  Nina Turner

  Men, Color, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, School, Boys

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• This [2016] election is also about, so importantly to me, African-American and Hispanic-American people whose communities have been plunged into crime, poverty and failing schools by the policies of crooked Hillary Clinton. Believe me, she's crooked.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, School, People

  Source: time.com

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• Our inner cities are almost at an all-time low, run by the Democrats for sometimes more than a hundred years, chain unbroken. So they have no jobs. They have horrible education. They have no safety or security and I say to the African-American community, what the hell do you have to lose? I will fix it. I will fix it. I will make it good. I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education. We'll have great safety in the inner city.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Jobs, Years

  Source: time.com

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