Best African American Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 16

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”

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Author:Thurgood Marshall

“I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.”

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Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.”

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Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

“Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.”

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Author:John C. McGinley

“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.”

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Author:Moby

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.”

“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”

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Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.”

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Book:The Huey P. Newton Reader

Source: The Huey P. Newton Reader

“Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.”

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Author:Xavier Becerra

“Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“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.”

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Author:Glenn Beck

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

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Book:An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer

Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer

“We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”

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Book:Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words

Source: Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words

“Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.”

“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.”

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”

“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”

“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”

“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

“Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.”

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Author:Charlie Parker

“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

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Book:Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

Source: Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

“I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.”

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Author:Mandy Patinkin

“During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.”

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Author:Tyler Perry

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”

“I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.”

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Author:Dennis Quaid

“I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.”

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Author:Gloria Reuben

“I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.”

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Author:Tim Robbins

“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

“If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.”

Source: Wilma

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”

“In today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Don't let the same dog bite you twice.”

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Book:Chuck Berry: The Autobiography

Source: Chuck Berry: The Autobiography

“Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.”

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Author:Halle Berry

“We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.”

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Book:Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents

Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents

“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”

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Author:Mary McLeod Bethune

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