(527 quotes found)
“[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party's most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as] very un-Al Gore, ... The Vice President will not have any problem connecting with ethnic minorities.”
Dennis Archer
“One of the themes throughout African-American history, going back to before the Civil War, is many African-Americans viewing themselves as a nation, or a nationality, within the borders of the United States.”
Michael Dawson
“Seeing is different than being told.”
African Proverb
“When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled”
“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
“Who is this gratifying and where were the Africans?”
Keith Richards
“I think it's easier for African American and white comics to be praised than it is Latinos because they think our culture or our humor is substandard, ... I mean, I just don't think they want to give us credit. I just don't think that they see us as important enough to be at their level. . . . I'm the longest-produced (comedy) at Warner Bros. and I don't feel special. They come over and say hello. But everybody's gonna make a lot of money and I don't feel like I'm special to them.”
George Lopez
“When arguing with a stone an egg is always wrong”
“Don't set sail on someone else's star”
“These wonderful entertainers are coming together with a common bond — honoring Bessie Coleman, the world's first licensed African-American woman pilot.”
Idotha Bootsie Neal
