“It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chance to look at her and see what she did and who she was. It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.”
Maya Angelou
“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”
“But what I learned from my experience in living in a community of almost all African-American people, and what I learned from my experience in living in my own community in Oklahoma before the relocation is that poor people have a much, much greater capacity for solving their own problems than most people give them credit for.”
Wilma Mankiller
“I became interested in all the history of African-American people that had been left out of school and history books.”
Jacqui Lewis
“We have Americans, Latin, African-American, Jamaican. We have a little bit of everything. There's a lot of people that like soccer and they come and play here.”
Hector Moreno
“Some people had doubts about an African-American woman leading the congregation, but it just took one Sunday and everybody just loved her immediately.”
Kevin Lyman
“He has quite an admirable record of race relations in Mississippi and got the unanimous support of the African-American community in Mississippi, including the NAACP.”
Rick Santorum
