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• With respect to Barack Obama, let’s face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.

  Artur Davis

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Vote, Black, Liberal, African American

• Sure, there’s a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It’s an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.

  Artur Davis

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  Tags in Frankly, Deep, Republican, Perception, African American

• Um, ‘Soul Food’… Another wonderful little movie that could. Here’s a film that, I think our budget was maybe $6 million. We shot it in Chicago in six weeks. I was so proud of the film, because it showed America that an African-American film about family could sell, could do well, could cross over and have true meaning.

  Vivica Fox

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in People, Movie, African American

• Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it’s not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn’t then.

  Pam Grier

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  Tags in African American, Black People

• This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

  William Labov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in African, African American, Language

• It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

  William Labov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in African, African American

• However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

  William Labov

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Research, African American

• An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

  William Labov

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Important, African, African American

• I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.

  Paris Hilton

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Africa, African American

• The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

  Dave Barry

  Tags in African American

• Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we’ll take that shit too.

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in African American

• One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Tags in African American

• African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism

  Julius Nyerere

  Tags in African American

• Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can’t we just be the sexy American girl next door?

  Tyra Banks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in African American, Women, Good

• The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that’s why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

  Alan Paton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in African American, Good

• Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life

  John F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in African American, Minority

• But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in Americaand change soon. We must help that change to come.

  Langston Hughes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change/Growth, African American, Writers And Writing, Responsibility

• To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in America

  Tags in African American, Hope, American

• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Tags in African American

• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent

  Maya Angelou

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in African American, Good, Race