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I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.
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.
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.
My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of racism and made me aware of that.
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.
I hear all the time from our audience about how it's nice to see a positive African-American role model for the younger kids out there that are watching.
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an issue we have to look at across the board.
I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
I am the dream and the hope of the slave
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.
I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
Hillary Clinton's done a terrible job for the African-Americans.
We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.
I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".
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.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.
Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two Americas we're living in. They don't want us to be equal.
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
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.
Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.
This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.
I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.
African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.
If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!