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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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MISTY COPELAND The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG African-American voters had solid turnout.
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HARLEY WILLIAMS The party needs him and, for all I know, the nation needs him. There hasn't been an African-American...
STEPHEN HESS
ANITA HILL
Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentiona... MARCIA FUDGE It is now apparent that the organizing efforts have reached beyond the Hispanic community and are no...
WENDY VASQUEZ The whole mindset of student athletes today is me, as opposed to we. They have pretty much lost the ...
DWAYNE WALKER But in the African and African American tradition, stories are fitted to an occasion. You have stori...
CHARLAYNE WOODARD I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would ...
GABRIELLE UNION
The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of th... RANDALL KENNEDY
I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American commun... MARK KIRK [Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var...
ALEX ADAMS My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffa...
HELENE D. GAYLE
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legi... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE We're a new organization of five young, African-American ministers. We're encouraging African-Americ...
THURSTON WIGGINS What it says is George W. Bush is beyond not popular in the African-American community. He is dislik...
JAY CAMPBELL Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,
BRENDA JONES
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American ... TA-NEHISI COATES
I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African Am... MALCOLM D. LEE
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports. J. C. WATTS The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
LANCE REDDICK Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
XAVIER BECERRA Democrats remain committed to issues important to the African-American community, which is why the 2...
AMAYA SMITH It's a pressing issue in the African-American community and for the larger general public.
ANTHONY CLARK You have to look at African-American turnout, particularly in Prince George's County. If that turns ...
CARLOS WATSON The African-American community has a grave interest in the outcome of this case.
GREG JOHNSON We want to emphasize community. We want to be self-sufficient and that means the community, and not ...
JACQUIE SMALL He's decided the African-American community is more important to his re-election than the Jewish com...
BILL BRADY Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed woul...
DOUGLAS WILDER [In the auto industry, for example,] There is no American car made that does not have parts made by ...
EARL GRAVES We're urging the African-American community to come out to donate blood. We want to fulfill that nee...
DONALD BAILEY Curvy African-American women were celebrated. These girls didn't experience anxiety and shame about ...
GAYLE BROOKS We do community canvases throughout the year using artists that are well known. But because the work...
BEN CLARK We are excited to continue to be a sponsor of NABJ. Through our partnerships and sponsorship of prom...
EDD SNYDER
If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looki... MITT ROMNEY I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issue...
KEN MEHLMAN One of the biggest things in the African-American community, people don't report crime.
RICHARD GARLAND We need to look at the same thing in African American and Hispanic populations.
ALISON FIELD
The African-American Freedom Trail: From Slavery to Freedom in New York City CHRISTOPHER MOORE People who don't know what it's like to be an African American don't understand that it's OK, ... I ...
JACQUELINE WOODSON In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do w...
MARVIN SAPP
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American. YAYA DACOSTA I think we're doing much better player-wise, but I think we need to reach out to African-American fa...
BOB DUPUY
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community... J. C. WATTS
I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong... NICOLAS CAGE
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal i... DEBI THOMAS Gosnell is African American, and there is a persistent myth that serial killers are all white men. B...
ANN MCELHINNEY African-American history is American history.
JOYCE WILLIAMS
I think O. J. Simpson was a very prominent figure in the African-American community. He was sort of ... STERLING K. BROWN
I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African Ameri... MATT KEMP Approximately 40 percent of our African-American teachers were hired in the last five years. And for...
DOUG YOUNG Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser,
PETER GOULD There are many African-Americans who really don't know what their family history is, and so they're ...
ELBRA WEDGEWORTH The African-American community was able to unite itself during the civil rights movement, and look a...
LUIS IBARRA There definitely was a perception if he was in the field he was going to win ? at that time. I think...
LEE JANZEN We needed to encourage additional African-American, Mexican-American representation on the council.
HARRIET MIERS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING I want to talk to the elders within the African American community. I want to get their sense, and t...
LONNIE BUNCH I think what this lawsuit does is say that there are some officers in the department that have some ...
LAWRENCE WILLIAMSON
The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.Everyone wants to win but n... BOBBY KNIGHT With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-Ame...
ARTUR DAVIS It is doubly important for African American women to pay attention to heart disease and stroke risk ...
ANJANETTE FERRIS I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to de...
RASHID JOHNSON
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That mea... DON LEMON It is profoundly discouraging to learn that the share of African-American kids attending segregated ...
DAVID PLANK It is being blind to history not to recognize that the criminal justice system has been trained on t...
JAMIN RASKIN
I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part o... AASIF MANDVI
This is not a beauty pageant. We want to be emphatic about that. This is about the quality of young ... STAN SMITH
African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates. MATTHEW DESMOND I am more then a African American woman, I am strength a woman with goals beyond what your eyes can ...
TANICA S HALL I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American Presid...
ERIC HOLDER The response from the community has been overwhelming. There's a huge sense of pride that there are ...
GAIL RICHARDS
But what I learned from my experience in living in a community of almost all African-American people... WILMA MANKILLER However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African A...
WILLIAM LABOV [I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calli...
JOHN MCWHORTER You saw every strata of the African American community, ... the doctor, the janitor, the guy who jus...
BARRY SHABAKA HENLEY African-American history is not something that can be put on display solely during the month of Febr...
ROBERT HALL They represent successful African-American businesses that have served our community for 20 or more ...
MARIE RENAUD We felt that the best way to reach the community is to start during a month where you focus on Afric...
GEORGE TERRELL
It's critical for African-American seniors and people with disabilities to be aware of this opportun... RUBY DEE
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world becau... PETE SEEGER
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. LARRY BIRD My new mission is, and I've said this to the White House, I want the Buy America to be real. I w...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend school... BOBBY SCOTT This is how to understand America. So having the Museum of African American History and Culture on t...
LONNIE BUNCH African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the bla...
MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER
I will make sure that my administration reflects the diversity of the country, ... African American,... BILL BRADLEY Many African-American students are half American Indian as well.
BRENT COX African-American voters will make a difference.
KEN WARREN African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movie...
LYNN NOTTAGE
The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the pe... ZIGGY MARLEY Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are loo...
MISTY COPELAND The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
BILL FRIST 'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really bi...
MISTY COPELAND
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil ri... HENRY LOUIS GATES
[Smith said he, too, is pleased by the recognition of African-American actors. He noted that Poitier... SIDNEY POITIER Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
GABRIELLE UNION I am not an African. I am an American.
ALBERT MURRAY
Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you mus... WHOOPI GOLDBERG African-American voters had solid turnout.
BRIAN BROX
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burde... FAYE WATTLETON The staff and one of our PTO subcommittees have worked very hard to develop a calendar of activities...
HARLEY WILLIAMS The party needs him and, for all I know, the nation needs him. There hasn't been an African-American...
STEPHEN HESS
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national el... 
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Accurst be he that first invented war. 
Confess and be hanged. 
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel. 
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For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every t... 
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew m... 
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Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res... 
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. 
Happiness is only real when shared. 
I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sen... 
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. 
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not gi... 
There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absu... 
But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a ... 
How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to cha... 
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to g... 
I accidentally saw David Byrne's last two songs in Prospect Park at a free concert because I cam... 
Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franc... 
When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g... 
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail... 
...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority... 
The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without ... 
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. 
Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being hu... 
We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up. 
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes... 
Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the... 
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. 
Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi... 
Without fear there cannot be courage. 
Children see magic because they look for it. 
she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks. 
Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ... 
We need to distinguish between nostalgia and the reassuring memory of happy times, which serves to l... 
I sometimes think
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the soci... 
I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a p... 