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I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.
I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.
For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.
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.
I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.
The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.
We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.
I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.
Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.
It turns out that there's a huge community of African-American musicians whose main influence is Throbbing Gristle.
People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
There are some policemen who overuse force, especially when there's an African-American involved, regardless of age.
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive.
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.
Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities.
What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.
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.
Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.
To those African-Americans suffering in our country, I say, what do you have to lose? Vote for Trump, I'm going to fix it.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.
African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.
A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.
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.
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.
If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!
African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.