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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.
I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
Even though I'm an African-American woman, it's not different from any other Bachelorette.
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
With President Trump, we've seen the lowest ever African-American and Hispanic unemployment.
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.
I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically.
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.
My dad's entire business and enterprises have been about helping the African-American community.
I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
I'm an African-American man. I've got to live with that. I've got to be cautious everywhere I go.
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.
There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.
If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world.
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.
I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.
We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.
If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.
My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.
You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.
I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American community.
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.
Electing the first African-American president was a tremendous accomplishment, but it hasn't erased racism.
African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.