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There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports. -- J. C. Watts
My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo. -- Helene D. Gayle
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. -- Don Lemon
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community. -- Ken Mehlman
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet. -- Marvin Sapp
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
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
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
I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community. -- Anita Hill
The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community. -- Saul Williams
I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options. -- J. C. Watts
We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans. -- J. C. Watts
With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold. -- Artur Davis
I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale. -- Gabrielle Union
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed. -- Barack Obama
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America. -- Douglas Wilder
Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats. -- Allan Houston
We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong - black men - for whatever reason, haven't done a good job of taking care of the weak. And we were doing things that render taking care of our youth and taking care of our women and our families impossible, when our lives are taken. -- Ryan Coogler
I get overwhelming support in the African-American community. -- Joe Biden
The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative. -- Pam Grier
The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry. -- Lance Reddick
The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated. -- Donald Trump
In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life. -- Kym Whitley
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. -- Xavier Becerra
If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community. -- Philip Smith
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large. -- Jack Kemp
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 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 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
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
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
They [African-American community] have been abused and used in order to get votes by Democrat politicians, because that's what it is. They've controlled these communities for up to 100 years. -- Donald Trump
We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community. -- Hakeem Jeffries
The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community -- Saul Williams
The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years. -- Donald Trump
And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery -- Trent Franks
When I saw Fannie Lou Hamer speech I said, "Well, how did this Democratic Party that Miss Hamer is talking about, become the Democratic Party that now is the party of the African-American community?" -- Leah D. Daughtry

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