African-American Quotes

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. (Larry Bird)
There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has demonstrated crossover appeal. I got involved in politics 40 years ago during the civil rights movement, so yes, it's an exciting thing. View quote
Joe Biden
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. View quote
Joe Biden
African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope. View quote
Jordan Peele
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come. View quote
Kathryn Stockett
I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing ‘Dixie' until she cries.” [in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the Senate]. View quote
Jesse Helms
Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood. View quote
Conan O'Brien
Police officers are the best of us. Men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic – they put their lives on the line every single day. View quote
Mike Pence
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. View quote
Aaron Spelling
I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community. View quote
Anita Hill
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me. (Annie Ilonzeh)
I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music. View quote
Ahmet Ertegun
Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode. View quote
Blair Underwood
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal. View quote
Cassandra Wilson
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. View quote
Debi Thomas
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact. View quote
John Henrik Clarke
Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns. View quote
Juan Williams
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community. View quote
Ken Mehlman
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. View quote
Mary J. Blige
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences. View quote
Omari Hardwick
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American. (Yaya DaCosta)
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. View quote
Queen Latifah
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. View quote
Salma Hayek
With the election behind us, our country turns hopeful eyes to the future. I have a few hopes of my own. I congratulate our first African-American president-elect. Martin Luther King, Jr. certainly would be proud to see this day. We are stronger for embracing diversity, and I am hopeful that we can continue working through the tensions and wrongs of the past and become a more just and colorblind society. I hope this new administration will help bring us together, and not further divide us. I have always found that freedom is the best way to break down barriers. A free society emphasizes the importance of individuals, and not because they are part of a certain group. That's the only way equal justice can be achieved. View quote
Ron Paul
Beautiful Healy Hall-part of, and all around where we sit now-was named after this great university's 29th President, Patrick Francis Healy. Healy was born into slavery, in Georgia, in 1834. His father was an Irish immigrant plantation owner and his mother, a slave. Under the laws of that time, Healy and his siblings were considered to be slaves. Healy is believed to be the first African-American to earn a Ph. D., the first to enter the Jesuit order, and the first to be president of Georgetown University or any predominantly white university. View quote
James Comey