We are African in origin and American in birth.
Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those fol...
What matters is that Southern slaves, at least on the larger plantations, created their own African American culture, which helped to preserve some of the more crucial areas of life and thought from white control or domination without significantly r...
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture becam...
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
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.
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
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.
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.
I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.
Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
I am not an African. I am an American.
