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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. Larry Bird | top
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Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages. Donna Brazile | top
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases. Elijah Cummings | top
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I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American. Kenneth Edmonds | top
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The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. Bill Frist | top
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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 | top
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. Queen Latifah | top
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Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market. Cynthia McKinney | top
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Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong. Ken Mehlman | top
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As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people. Steve Mitchell | top
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I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike. Anne Northup | top
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. Barack Obama | top
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The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery. Charles Rangel | top
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The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. Charles Rangel | top
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I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential. Tim Scott | top
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I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant. Leah Ward Sears | top
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I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general. Leah Ward Sears | top
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When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life. Leah Ward Sears | top
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Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl. Aaron Spelling | top
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Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about. Michael Steele | top
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Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. Lynn Swann | top
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We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you? Lynn Swann | top
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Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode. Blair Underwood | top
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Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was. Diane Watson | top
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Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal. Cassandra Wilson | top
