#african american

As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact. ↗

— Monique Coleman

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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

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This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

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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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The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

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Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

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I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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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. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

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