Famous African-American Quote

Famous African-American Quote

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 (1942- ) The Greatest (1975)

Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as the very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a mighty intimidating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.
James Baldwin.

hat marvelously mocking, salty authority with which black men walked was dictated by the tacit and shared realization of the price each had paid to be able to walk at all.
James Baldwin.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
James Baldwin.

The wreched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply; life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
James Baldwin.

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.
James Baldwin.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Marcus Garvey

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey

Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.
Marcus Garvey

The only protection against injustice in man is power -- physical, financial, and scientific.
Marcus Garvey

Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.
Marcus Garvey

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
Marcus Garvey

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.
Marcus Garvey

Up, up, you mighty race! You can accomplish what you will.
Marcus Garvey

"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 quotes (American black militant leader who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s, 1925-1965)

"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 quotes (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)

"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."
Chris Rock quotes

"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 quotes (American Scholar, Sociologist and Civil-Rights Leader,1868-1963)

"To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope."
Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968)

"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 quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

"Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life"
John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)

"African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism"
Julius K. Nyerere quotes

"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 quotes (American Model, b.1973)

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.Richard Bach

“We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vocal. A lot of bands just try to be catchy. The Smiths wanted to be more.
Spencer Smith

“No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, "I wish I'd spent more time at the office”