Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

J. August Richards

American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd ...

Khaled Hosseini

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals ...

Malcolm Gladwell

It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

Wealth for All Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.

Tracie Thoms

I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.

Daymond John

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

Cynthia McKinney

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

Leah Ward Sears

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Am...

Ron Eglash

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

Xavier Becerra

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

Queen Latifah

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

Spike Lee

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

Danny Glover

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Lynn Swann

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

Michael N. Castle

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Stephen Ambrose

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

John Henrik Clarke

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

Henry Louis Gates

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

Tim Robbins

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Daryl Hall