Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

My grandmothers are Irish-American and German-American; my grandfather is from the Caribbean. My father is African-American. My family looked funny. I just started naturally imitating whoever I was talking to. I didn't want to be a phony, but I felt ...

Sarah Jones

When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.

Yaya Toure

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

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

Rodney Alexander

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

Dave Barry

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.

Henry Louis Gates

There was a time in the '90s where, as an African-American man, you had to be a misogynistic R&B star or a rapper, and I didn't fit into either one of those. I was advised by my label to remain closeted at that time.

Billy Porter

America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.

David Scott

The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

Octavia Spencer

Reggie Campbell and Kathleen Goldsmith are participants in an American success story, the unprecedented boom of home-buying by African-Americans in the 1990s. Only he is black and she is white. When he moved into the neighborhood, she moved out.

Bill Dedman

Rent-to-own provides a vital service to millions of Americans. It is also critical for African-Americans, Latinos and other minorities to have access to alternative products and services, such as rent-to-own.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Charles B. Rangel

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

Jennifer Granholm

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

Rand Paul

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

Chris Tucker

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

Emmanuel Jal

It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.

Utkarsh Ambudkar

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

Lynn Swann

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.

Ahmet Ertegun

I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.

Alafia Stewart