Life From African Americans Quotes

#1. [Donald] Trump is going to appeal better to African Americans, Hispanics, and others than previous Republican candidates because he's talking about what they want: a fair chance to have a better life economically.

Jeff Sessions

#2. An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

Nicole Mones

#3. I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Aberjhani

#5. When you didn't have the ocean or mountain to keep you busy, he supposed you hurled pumpkins.

G.P. Ching

#6. You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root," and for me the "fierce winds" include the marginalization-the downright segregation-of literature written by people of color.

Bernice L. McFadden

#8. The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

James Baldwin

#9. Use the Force! But use the bathroom first if you need to.

Jeffrey Brown

#10. It is my deepest desire to share the worlds of people we don't often see or read about in media. With my writing I seek to introduce you to the worlds I've always known existed around me and within me.

Casey Curry

#11. They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!

Herman Cain

#12. On our life map, he drew a bright circle around twelve through eighteen. This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to reemerge on corners and prison tiers.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#13. Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.

Katharine Hepburn

#14. All I could see was that the one year I was really primed for holiday cheer, no one else was cooperating.

Jane Green

#15. When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.

Leah Ward Sears

#16. Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

John Wooden