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African-American people adore President Obama. -- Julianne Malveaux
I have a lot of African-American friends. -- Larry Pressler
I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday. -- Howard Dean
That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires. -- Rush Limbaugh
I get overwhelming support in the African-American community. -- Joe Biden
In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died. -- Peter Diamandis
The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King. -- Bobby Seale
The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative. -- Pam Grier
I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters. -- Tracey Ullman
Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. -- Henry Rollins
We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other. -- Malaak Shabazz
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. -- Larry Bird
I'm an American. I'm not an African-American; I'm an American. -- Raven-Symone
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture -- Mark Steyn
I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything. -- Jordan Peele
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. -- Alice Walker
A growing number of Muslims in America, more than 40 percent are African-American -- Charles Bierbauer
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music. -- Johnny Otis
African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases. -- Elijah Cummings
He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists. -- Spike Lee
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports. -- J. C. Watts
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. -- Maya Angelou
I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist. -- Terry Crews
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. -- Hillary Clinton
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino. -- Junot Diaz
The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb. -- Rick Santorum
The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated. -- Donald Trump
We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated. -- Bernie Sanders
I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept. -- Terry Crews
My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo. -- Helene D. Gayle
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American. -- Yaya DaCosta
I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire. -- Deion Sanders
We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American. -- Bernie Sanders
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama. -- Mara Liasson
We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated. -- Donald Trump
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music. -- Ahmet Ertegun
There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that. -- Mekhi Phifer
Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages. -- Donna Brazile
I wonâ??t react to something just because Iâ??m supposed to, because Iâ??m an African-American -- Kobe Bryant
As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause. -- Tim Hardaway
I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step. -- Jerome Ringo
People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair. -- Tracie Thoms
If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community. -- Philip Smith
I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black". -- Rick Santorum
Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well. -- Chanel Iman
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. -- Don Lemon
In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal. -- Cassandra Wilson
While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes. -- Julianne Malveaux
Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him. -- Julianne Malveaux
The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American. -- Rush Limbaugh
I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that. -- Robert Griffin III
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community. -- Ken Mehlman
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. -- Naomi Wolf
I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative. -- Curtis Granderson
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. -- Henry Louis Gates
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. -- Lee Daniels
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet. -- Marvin Sapp
As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America. -- Tracy Martin
Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty. -- Julianne Malveaux
In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters. -- Judy Woodruff
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
Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White. -- Kwame Kilpatrick
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. -- Rudy Giuliani
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. -- Condoleezza Rice
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. -- Newt Gingrich
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. -- Debi Thomas
[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population. -- Ethan Zuckerman
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
My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American. -- Kehinde Wiley
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives. -- Nas
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. -- Janelle Monae
I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students. -- Jeb Bush
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that. -- Bernie Sanders
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
I think the most critical needs of the African-American communities aren't being addressed primarily because of decisions being made by Republican Congressional leaders. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look! -- Mitt Romney
I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame. -- Simon Munnery
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States. -- Hillary Clinton
I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. -- Donald Trump
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan. -- Nikki Haley
When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in. -- Kevin Grevioux
I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right. -- Donald Trump
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood. -- Denzel Washington
I think that I've developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community. I think you can see that. -- Donald Trump
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments. -- Rand Paul
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'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
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. -- Henry Louis Gates
I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring. -- Glenn Beck
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience, -- Henry Louis Gates
When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias? -- Mike Pence
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. -- Joe Biden
One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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. -- Keegan-Michael Key
I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive. -- Viola Davis
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
My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood. -- Michael Franti
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements. -- Aberjhani
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. -- Camille Paglia
I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public. -- Julianne Malveaux
When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it. -- Johnny Otis
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
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts. -- Faye Wattleton
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
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view. -- John Henrik Clarke
We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first. -- Donald Trump
Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience. -- Douglas Brinkley
I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers. -- Wanda Sykes
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us. -- Tracy Morgan
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. -- Tim Kaine
Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O. -- Jordan Peele
Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights. -- Jill Stein
Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. -- Mike Pence
The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community. -- Ziggy Marley
There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities. -- Mark Shields
Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up. -- Barack Obama

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