African American Quotes - Page 25

• The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Joy, Leader, Support

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• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  Patricia Ireland

  Florida, Issues, Want

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• 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.

  Stanley Crouch

  Words Of Wisdom, Stories, Made

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• I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Years, President, Looks

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• For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.

  Greg Oden

  Cities, Portland, Males

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• Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

  Alice Childress

  Unique, Patterns, Action

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• Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent.

  Shintaro Ishihara

  Mean, Intelligent, Speak English

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• Nice Site! http://google.com

  Horace Grant

  Nice, Google, Site

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• Excellence is the name of the game.

  Judith Jamison

  Games, Names, Excellence

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• Acting means living, it's all I do.

  Morgan Freeman

  Mean, Acting

  "Morgan Freeman: 10 things you need to know about the Oscar-nominated actor". www.mirror.co.uk. February 18, 2010.

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• All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

  June Jordan

  History, Soul, Finding Yourself

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

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• 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.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Class, Curiosity, Borders

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.169, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Girl, Baby, Attitude

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• Black History is enjoying the life of our ancestors who paved the way for every African-American. No matter what color you are, the history of Blacks affected everyone; that's why we should cherish and respect Black history. Black history changed America and is continuing to change and shape our country. Black history is about everyone coming together to better themselves and America. Black history is being comfortable in your own skin no matter what color you are. Black history makes me proud of where I came from and where I am going in life.

  Bernice Mosby

  Country, America, Color

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• Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

  Katherine Dunham

  Thinking, Forever, Words Of Wisdom

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• Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Words Of Wisdom, Chance, Remember

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• Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

  Angela Davis

  Words Of Wisdom, Existence, Humans

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• If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

  Stanley Crouch

  Words Of Wisdom, Trying, Belts

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• I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Grateful, Moon

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 09, 2012

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• The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  Jesse Owens

  Quilts, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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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.

  Stanley Crouch

  Words Of Wisdom, Heritage, Humans

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• Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Roots, Self, Humanity

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2008). “The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt”, p.382, Penguin

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• The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

  Ishmael Reed

  Education, Race, Different

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Responsibility, Heart

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Education, Children, Wall

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