African-American Quotes

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community. Saul Williams
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Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form. Savion Glover
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My new mission is, and I've said this to the White House, I want the Buy America to be real. I want the Buy America to be by small businesses, African American businesses, Latino and Asian, but in particular our African American businesses who heretofore couldn't even find the front door of government contracts. Sheila Jackson Lee
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You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists. Solange Knowles
You Musically Vampire More Weekend Most References Than Artists African African-American Who
The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American. Sterling K. Brown
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I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'. Steve Harvey
People Men Young Think Our Ears Responsibly Greater Because Hip-Hop African-American Young People Many Millions
I never saw a little African-American girl saving the world. So to be able to be that for not only myself but girls who look like me is really important and inspiring. Unfortunately, we don't see ourselves saving the world a lot, and if we do see any type of superhero, that person usually has superpowers. Storm Reid
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I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that. Sufe Bradshaw
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition. Ta-Nehisi Coates
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Poverty Country Resulted Had Share Particular Policies African-American Communities Larger
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down. Tamara Tunie
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family. Tamara Tunie
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My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead. Tayari Jones
First Late Took City Atlanta Look Dead Least Leaving Left Children African-American Serial Novel Hometown
Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. Terrance Hayes
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I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept. Terry Crews
People Would Superheroes Feel New Like Make Accept African-American Need
When I looked at 'Dear White People,' you have four African-American students who are all very different and who are trying to figure out who they are. They're dealing with identity issues and crises. That is exciting to me, to see African-American young people on a page, on a screen, who are so diverse and whose stories are all so different. Teyonah Parris
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You look at 'Survivor's Remorse.' Or 'Blackish.' Or Issa Rae's brilliant, funny 'Insecure,' which started out on YouTube but is now on HBO. And you see multifaceted representations of the African-American experience. It's insanely exciting. Teyonah Parris
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I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman as the best friend, or the one you bring in when you need some sass. It's like we're put in a box. Tika Sumpter
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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
Time Moody Style Case Developed Delta Around Blues African-American Anymore Bashful
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities. Tim Meadows
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When my kids were young, we used to go to a place called The Shrine of the Black Madonna in Houston. It was an African-American bookstore where they sold paintings, but they also had a room that was an all-purpose center. If you wanted to have a dance recital or anything that was related to the community activities, you could have it there. Tina Knowles
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Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now. Todrick Hall
Life Gay My Life Own Other Other Kids Those Kids Beacon Uncomfortable Weird Feel Like Know Devoted Sure How Making Issues American Any Just African Want African-American American Kids Themselves Express Now
Myself, I happen to be married to an African-American woman, and we're together 17 years. We took a few trips to the South 15 years ago, and we were sobered by some of the reactions people had - how subtle or not-so-subtle their reactions were. Tom Verica
Myself Together Woman People Few Took Married Some Trips Had Reactions How Were Years Years Ago South African-American Happen Subtle
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic. Tony Campolo
You Bible Vote Will Community Thoroughly Significant About Percent Proportion Over Most Talk Democratic Well Forget American African African Americans African-American Evangelical Evangelicals
When I was15 years old, I couldn't look at the NFL and look on TV and say, 'Boy, there's a head coach, African American. That's something I'd like to do.' Tony Dungy
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People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair. Tracie Thoms
People School Hair Beauty Nothing White Everything About Know Graduate African-American
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