“It's going to take a while before you see a lot of African American drivers out there, but one day it will happen.”
Bill Lester
“The African-American Mardi Gras experience in this part of Louisiana is that that was a day that they could be actually free. The old folks talk about a sense of liberation and a sense of mysticism.”
John Freeman
“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”
Muhammad Ali
“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”
Malcolm X
“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
“Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to transcend it. They are affirmations and celebrations of the value and worth of the African-American spirit. And young people would do well to understand them as the roots of today's rap, rather than some antique to be tossed away.”
August Wilson
“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
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