Afro Americans Quotes

#1. A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.

Dick Gregory

#2. Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

Thurgood Marshall

#3. It is not a case of our people ... wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.

Malcolm X

#4. In every project, I always look for the depth of humanity inside of it. I'm just trying to say if we can help in some way heal the equation with [Afro-Americans] what's going on with us as people.

Forest Whitaker

#5. The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

Hugh Masekela

#6. Tell beautiful women they are smart, and smart women they are beautiful.

Tucker Max

#7. To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz musicians that at this point the entirety of the American tradition is your heritage, and you need to know it.

Wynton Marsalis

#8. A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.

James Poniewozik

#9. I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire ... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?

Vera Nazarian

#10. Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppres the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the workers, farmers and revolutionary intellectuals and other enlighted people who form the majority of the white population.

Mao Tse-tung

#11. The best day of my life was
one I never even saw coming.

Gayle Forman

#12. At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

Carter G. Woodson

#13. Delusions are a vital part of my existence.

Jason Krumbine