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The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
A lot of people in the African-American community are raised by grandmothers, and that relationship is a special bond and circle.
I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.
It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.
I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.
Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.
I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.
There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.
There are as many quality African-American actors and actresses as Caucasians, but it seems that they get a lot more opportunities.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.
To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
If the only thing that was interesting about Jefferson Pierce is that he is African-American, I don't think we'd have much of a show.
We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to work with.
I don't want to sit there and compare to things I've gone through to what the Black player, the African-American player, goes through.
I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.
There aren't a lot of African-American superheroes. I've been reading comics since I was eight or nine years old. Luke Cage stood out.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.
Obama is the first African-American president, and for some people, that means a great deal, and for some people, it means very little.
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.
When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.
People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.
We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.
It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.
In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.
One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.