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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack Obama
Mom
Gay
Heart
Old
Somebody
Young
Teenage
Recognize
Criterion
Disabled
Selecting
Empathy
Like
Judges
Understand
Got
African-American
Which
Poor
Need
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
Barack Obama
People
Path
Black
Past
White
Community
Minds
Must
More
Perfect
Does
Real
Exist
Discrimination
Legacy
Than
Current
Just
African-American
African-American Community
In The Past
Acknowledging
While
Means
Less
Union
Incidents
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
Hozier
Music
Gospel Music
Drawn
Gospel
Rock
Always
Rock And Roll
Roll
African-American
Roots
Foundation
I realized that with African American people, where we've been blocked from being all that God meant for us to be, I don't have time to be patient.
Elijah Cummings
God
Time
People
Be Patient
Patient
Blocked
Been
American
African
Being
Where
African-American
American People
Realized
Us
Meant
Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.
Donald Trump
People
Immigration
Our
Latino
System
Citizens
Record
Higher
Wages
Unemployment
Decades
American
Going
African-American
American People
Produced
Workers
Lower
Works
I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.
Dennis Quaid
People
Remember
Mother
Thought
Black
Hatred
Somebody
Drinking
Skin
Silly
Color
Had
Like
Housekeeper
Balcony
Because
Houston
Up
Just
Just Because
African-American
Grew
Theater
Really
Separate
Who
Sat
Growing
Growing Up
Second
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
Thoughts
Community
Think
Claim
Pretend
Diverse
Point
Voices
Point Of View
Ideas
Know
Opinions
However
Heard
Lot
Very
Different
African-American
African-American Community
View
Need
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Culture
Black
Community
Group
Other
Television
Black Community
About
Facets
Tend
Talk
Audience
Cultures
Just
African-American
Us
Viewing
Many
From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.
Mary J. Blige
Music
Business
Ending
Thought
Girl
First
Speechless
Music Business
President
Projects
See
Through
Never
Mess
Because
Up
Ended
Going
Being
African-American
Little
Far
Little Girl
Inauguration
Even
Now
Ever
Right
The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.
Melvin Van Peebles
Key
Complicated
Somebody
Sense
Would
General
More
Like
Empowerment
Said
Than
Jackson
Just
African-American
Urban
Sapiens
Larger
Jesse Jackson
Homo
Homo Sapiens
When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.
Nicole Ari Parker
You
White
Community
New
French
Quarter
Mixing
New Orleans
African-American
Acknowledge
Races
Hard
Whole
Play
Orleans
Set
Creole
You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them... and, in many ways, pit bulls are like young African-American males. Whenever you see us in the news, it's for getting shot and killed or shooting and killing somebody - for being a stereotype.
Ryan Coogler
Good
News
You
Somebody
Young
Ways
See
About
Never
Stereotype
Like
Stigma
Bull
Doing
Hear
Bulls
Males
Shooting
Pit
Getting
Whenever
Being
African-American
Anything
Them
Us
Shot
Many
Media
Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
War
Time
You
Men
First
Before
Radical
President
Civil
Civil War
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Had
He
Know
First Time
Limited
Lincoln
Singular
Up
Sitting
Any
Quite
Stood
African-American
Who
Served
Right
Suffrage
I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook and a little bit of cleaning.
Terry McMillan
Life
Cleaning
Woman
Mother
My Life
Live
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Everything
Bit
Writer
Does
African-American
Little
Little Bit
Cook
I'm African-American. I'd rather follow an African religion. That's my heritage.
21 Savage
Religion
Heritage
Follow
Rather
African
African-American
My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.
John W. Rogers, Jr.
Government
Leadership
Mom
Great
Woman
World
Law
School
First
Corporate
Corporate World
Possible
Law School
Had
She
Felt
Chicago
Model
Role
Role Model
Roles
Graduate
African-American
Anything
University
I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
Aaron Diehl
Music
Church
Gospel Music
Other
Would
Would-Be
Had
Mass
Catholic
Catholic Church
Gospel
Traditional
Very
American
African
African-American
Experiences
Then
Unique
Exposure
Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
Aaron Spelling
Time
People
Girl
First
Young
White
Nowadays
Say
Guy
Kissed
Mention
Never
He
Come
First Time
Always
Proud
How
Doing
Squad
Very
African-American
Show
Shows
I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
Aasif Mandvi
Inclusive
Think
Way
Would
See
More
Developed
Part
Performers
Like
Perhaps
Hispanic
South
Tapestry
Roles
American
African
African-American
Asian
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
Aberjhani
World
More
Poets
Names
Most
Known
Because
Cultural
Celebrated
Authors
Artists
Arts
Movements
African-American
Specific
Among
Association
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
Alice Walker
Part
American
Native
Native American
African-American
Euro
In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.'
Allen West
Home
You
First
Nation
Action
Every
President
Sign
Obama
Find
Gimmick
Rush
Case
Fact
Highest
Fell
Said
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Office
America
Candidate
African-American
Warning
Stand
Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up.
Allison Jones
Good
Great
YouTube
See
Guy
He
Head
Named
Cleveland
Always
African-American
Mike
Who
Lives
Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.
Andre Braugher
Today
Few
Types
Television
Characters
Stereotypes
Very
Human
African-American
Human Beings
Unfortunately
Who
Beings
Two-Dimensional
I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the fight for refugees.
Andreja Pejic
War
Rights
Fight
Believe
American
Refugees
African
Different
African-American
Against
Women's Studies, Queer Studies, African-American Studies, and Chicano Studies all produce culturally acceptable separatist and supremacy mind-sets and countenance movements that resemble those of white supremacists.
Andrew Breitbart
Women
White
Those
Countenance
Studies
Supremacy
Acceptable
Queer
Movements
African-American
Produce
Resemble
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