African American Quotes - Page 34

• You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.

  Salma Hayek

  Latin, Moving, Wrinkles

  "Salma Hayek Talks Acne, Depression, & Botox" by Kacy Ray, www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

  Jesse Jackson

  Christian, Liars, White

  "Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. August 8, 2011.

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• Fans don't boo nobodies.

  Reggie Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Barack Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

  Alveda King

  Opportunity, Missing, Skins

  "Here's Hoping Herman Cain Will Stay In the Race" by Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2011.

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• A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Men, Bent

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Interesting, Get Better, President

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• Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Racism, Criticism, Firsts

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• I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Struggle, Roots, Leader

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• I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Running, Mean, Always Trying

  "Wynton Marsalis gives spirited take on jazz with 'Abyssinian Mass'". Interview with Jeremy D. Goodwin, www.bostonglobe.com. October 24, 2013.

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• I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  People, Want, Urban

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

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• Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.

  John C. McGinley

  League, Disrespect, Groups

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• In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

  Moby

  White, Long, People

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• Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

  Michelle Obama

  School, America, United States

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• Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

  Camille Paglia

  Roots, Rocks, Feminist

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• Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

  Camille Paglia

  Blow, White, Black

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• I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

  Mandy Patinkin

  School, Boys, House

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• During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Rights, Voting

  "Rand Paul at Howard University". The Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Arguing, Bigs

  "Rand Paul at Howard:'Big government not a friend to African Americans'" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2013.

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• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  Rand Paul

  Firsts, Vote, Republican

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Government, Jim Crow Laws

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• But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Recovery, Unemployed

  "Texas Gov. Rick Perry Announces Presidential Bid". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 13, 2011.

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• There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

  J. C. Watts

  Sports, Community, Entertainment

  "Watts launches African-American channel". Interview with Helena Andrews, www.politico.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

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• I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

  J. C. Watts

  Community, Television, Satellites

  "Watts launches African-American channel". Interview with Helena Andrews, www.politico.com. July 17, 2008.

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• The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

  Naomi Wolf

  America, President, Gone

  "Naomi Wolf on Obama: 'His record on civil liberties is shocking'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

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