Words matter. These are the best African-American Community Quotes from famous people such as J. C. Watts, Kehinde Wiley, EJ Johnson, Ken Mehlman, Barack Obama, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television’s most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.
Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it’s produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.
My dad’s entire business and enterprises have been about helping the African-American community.
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.
Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don’t want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
The only reason I’ve been so critical of hip-hop is because I’ve always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.
For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It’s not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.
My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, ‘Bronzeville,’ in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we’re developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.
At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line – throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.
My audience went, ‘Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?’ And then they went, ‘Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.’ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
The Jewish culture has a wonderful thing about education. It has a great thing about family; it has a great thing about unity, hard work, dedication. I would like to say the African-American community should emulate that.
If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!
Too many people have lost their lives, particularly in the African-American community, for the right to vote. I stand in their shadows and I am standing on their shoulders.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what’s happening in their culture, their community.
