African American Quotes - Page 11

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

  Donna Brazile

  Office, Income, Wages

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• You were put here to protect us.
  But who protects us from you?

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Police

  Song: Who Protects Us from You?, Album: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (BDP)

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• I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

  Patti LaBelle

  Funny, Humorous, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Jan 24, 2013

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

  Maya Angelou

  Respect, Black Women, Phenomenal Woman

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2015

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• 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.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Doors, Way, Lawyer

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• I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Journey, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Sep 20, 2015

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• Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

  Charles Barkley

  Years, People, Political

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• I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

  Patti LaBelle

  Success, Giving, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Feb 05, 2013

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• Music is the universal language.

  Swizz Beatz

  Music, Art, Hip Hop

  "10 questions for 'Far East Movement'". Rap-Up Interview, www.rap-up.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

  T.I.

  Inspirational, Hater, Rap

  Song: Live Your Life

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• A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Engineering, America, Community

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• It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?

  Bonnie St. John

  Life, Women, Empowering

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• Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Death, Inspirational Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 02, 2010

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• One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.

  Chuck D

  Rapper, Interesting, Alcohol

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• If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Learning, Cat

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• Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

  Mickey Rivers

  Baseball, Worry, Words Of Wisdom

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• We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Education, Children, Kids

  "'Collective' outrage over MSNBC promo". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2013.

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• For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• A man is a man, until that man finds a plan, a plan that makes that man, a new man

  Dred Scott

  Change, Men, People Changing

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• You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world' and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.

  Chick Webb

  Inspirational, Change, Men

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• I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Running, Rap, Men

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• You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career.’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.

  Ruby Dee

  Marriage, Baby, Children

  "Breaking: Legendary Actress Ruby Dee Has Died at Age 91, Family Says" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2014.

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• I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

  Nat King Cole

  Music, Real, Heart

  "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.

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• I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

  Anita Hill

  Thinking, Community, Protect

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• African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

  Chaka Fattah

  Children, College, Years

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