326 Quotes About African-american

I am consumed with the fear of...

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

I was born black and female.

People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors,

I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.