African American Quotes - Page 5

Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

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.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

I was born black and female.

I'm never satisfied with what I do. I always think I can do it a lot better.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

There should be no surprise that forgotten America, no matter their ethnicity, because we see that Mr. Trump was able to get Hispanic voters, African American voters. Oh my God, the majority of, of, of the women voters that he was able to amass, even though he was painted as the other, my party, the Democratic party, did not listen to the voices of the forgotten America.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.