326 Quotes About African-american

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

None of us is responsible for the...

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats...

Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can really understand what's that about.

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