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In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.


Kym Whitley
Tags: About Life Very
In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.
Lee Daniels
Tags: Years Many Over
You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.
Solange Knowles
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The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.
Ted Cruz
Tags: People Who Been
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.
Tony Campolo
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People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
Janice Dickinson
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It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.
Utkarsh Ambudkar
Tags: Time People Get
If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.
Daryl Hall
Tags: You Than Lot
President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
Kenny Leon
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I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
Tim Robbins
When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.
Hill Harper
Tags: Music You Always
Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
M.I.A.
Tags: Design Want Been
I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
Cory Booker
Tags: Want Am I Am
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
Bob Cousy
Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.
Loretta Lynch
Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.
Nicole Ari Parker
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Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!


Marcus Garvey
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.


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Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often dressed up as an older, disheveled woman.
Rebecca Traister
Tags: Women Up Been
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What's really good is African drum music.


Fiona Apple
Tags: Good Music Really
The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.
Cheryl Mills
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I am not an African. I am an American.


Albert Murray
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I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in this lifetime than an African American man.
Isaiah Washington
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Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.
Pete Rose
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
Rand Paul
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The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.


Whoopi Goldberg
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.
Solomon Ortiz
Tags: Had Been Them
We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.
Janelle Monae
Tags: Get Want Being
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
Bobby McFerrin
Tags: Time Music Home
'Mission: Impossible' is fun. But for myself as an artist, I'm really more concerned with the human condition, the human experience, especially from an African American point of view.
Ving Rhames
I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring.
John Legend
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.


Larry Bird
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.
Teju Cole
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When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.
Lee Grant
Tags: Me Life Very
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African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.


Jill Scott
I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.
Maya Rudolph
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In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.
Moby
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I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.


Annie Ilonzeh
Tags: Love I Love Both
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
Andrew Young
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
Randall Kennedy
Tags: Always Life Being