African American Studies Quotes

#1. At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

Soledad O'Brien

#2. I am not okay.

But I will be fine.

Anonymous

#3. I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

Brooke Fraser

#4. What these thinkers, chroniclers, and interpreters have written about, how they have theorized their scholarly endeavors, and their approaches and methodologies have inevitably been informed and shaped by the times in which they existed.

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

#5. When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.

Jessica Mauboy

#6. My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

Natasha Trethewey

#7. Okay, then I used to like that kind of thing. Now I like your kind of thing. It's the very best kind of thing. Makes all other kinds of things look like shit.

M. Leighton

#8. Recent sociological findings indicate that while "whites have largely abandoned principled racism... they have not necessarily given up negative racial stereotypes" or "negative sentiments and beliefs about African Americans.

John Hoberman

#9. You might even be irresistibly tempted to top those three scoops off with an additional dollop of whipped BDSM and sex-toy sprinkles.

Michael Makai