African American Quotes - Page 13

I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.

It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.

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.

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

What I want to do is basically tell my generation's story about how music and culture helped affect a generation, and a generation that's so profound, that it went on to elect the first African-American president.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of the African American and Latino population does live in poverty as compared to the white population, when overall numbers are looked at, it is clear that people of all races, ethnicities, and colors, are represented amongst America's poor.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats that have been running the show, with the first African-American president at the top of the heap, and it didn't get any better?

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.

That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires.

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.

In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb.