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When people say they can't find African-American startups to invest in, it just sounds a little crazy to me.
We need to have law enforcement and the African-American community work together for the safety of everybody.
I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.
In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.
If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.
It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.
I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.
After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.
As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.
The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.
I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.
I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.
It turns out that there's a huge community of African-American musicians whose main influence is Throbbing Gristle.
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
There are some policemen who overuse force, especially when there's an African-American involved, regardless of age.
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive.
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.
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.
People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.
I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.
My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.
African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.