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If you’re African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person. (American Quotes)
It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American. (American Quotes)
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world. (American Quotes)
Does this mean that in some places I’m American and in some places I’m African American and in other places, by logical extension, I’m nobody? (American Quotes)
I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them. (American Quotes)
I want to be the voice for those people who are going through the same thing, like little African American boys and girls getting bullied at school. (American Quotes)
To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that’s what we all understand. (American Quotes)
I’d like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody. (American Quotes)
Mission: Impossible’ is fun. But for myself as an artist, I’m really more concerned with the human condition, the human experience, especially from an African American point of view. (American Quotes)
I don’t do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it’s important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball. (American Quotes)
Obama’s a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board. (American Quotes)
We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show [‘Good Times’] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that’s why we set it there. (American Quotes)
I’m African American, I’m a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain for me. And therefore, obviously, the most lessons. (American Quotes)
Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they’re African American they’ll say, I’m not black enough for African Americans. I’m not white enough for the whites. I’m not Hispanic enough. (American Quotes)
People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking. (American Quotes)
When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back. (American Quotes)
When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that’s fine, but we don’t need to see you do a ‘Schindler’s List,’ where there’s no jokes or music or comedic through-line. (American Quotes)
American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I’d got to grips with it, I’d graduated. (American Quotes)
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. (American Quotes)
It wasn’t until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started to eat the food, started to understand the music. I said, you know, I got to go and understand the culture. So me and my sister went. (American Quotes)
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche. (American Quotes)
I don’t want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am. (American Quotes)
One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Muslim movement. African blood, African origin, African culture, African ties. And you’d be surprised - we discovered that deep within the subconscious of the black man in this country, he is still more African than he is American. (American Quotes)
In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students’ parents and community leaders. (American Quotes)
It doesn’t look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, ‘My God, do you think we’ll ever learn to fly anything this big?’ (American Quotes)
Cultural wisdom says ‘Don’t quit your day job.’ Yet I think these desires represent our psyche’s stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don’t want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours. (American Quotes)
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. (American Quotes)
In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias. (American Quotes)
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can’t get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. (American Quotes)
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. (American Quotes)