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I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

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

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world.

There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.

I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

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

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American community.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

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.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

Electing the first African-American president was a tremendous accomplishment, but it hasn't erased racism.

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

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.

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.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

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