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Theres This Little Box That African-american Actors Have To Work In, In The First Place, And I Was Able To Rise Above That Box. I Could Have Done A Bunch Of Movies Where I Stayed As The Axel Foley Or Reggie Hammond Persona. But I Didnt Want To Be Doing The Same Thing All The Time. Every Now And Then, You Crash And Burn, But Thats Part Of It.
African American
Firsts
Actors
Now Goverments Are A Different Thing. Presidents Who Do Not Want Me. As I Said, An African-american Discriminates Against An Indigenous Bolivian. Well, They Have Their Reasons, But Sooner Or Later We Will All Be Judged.
African American
President
Different
I Was Filled With Rage. These Same People Who Accuse Planned Parenthood Of ‘targeting’ African-american Children, They Care About You Only While You’re In The Womb. The Minute You Crown, You’re On Your Own.
Children
People
African American
We African Americans Have Now Spent The Major Part Of The 20th Century Battling Racism
Racism
African American
Racist
Black Literature Is Taught As Sociology, As Tolerance, Not As A Serious, Rigorous Art Form.
Art
African American
Tolerance
Living Consciously Involves Being Genuine; It Involves Listening And Responding To Others Honestly And Openly; It Involves Being In The Moment.
Honesty
African American
Live In The Moment
If You Want A President Who Will Make Things Better In The African-american Community, You Are Looking At Him.
Community
African American
President
But Of Course, Now We're Told We're In Recovery But This Sure Doesn't Feel Like A Recovery To More Than 9 Percent Of The Americans Out There Who Are Unemployed, Or The 16 Percent Of The African-americans, 11 Percent Of Hispanics In The Same Position, Or The Millions Who Can Only Find Part-time Work Or Those Who Have Even Stopped Looking For A Job.
Jobs
Recovery
African American
Police Officers Are The Best Of Us. And The Men And Women, White, African-american, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, They Put Their Lives On The Line Every Single Day.
Men
White
African American
When African-american Police Officers Involved In A Police Action Shooting Involving An African-american, Why Would Hillary Clinton Accuse That African-american Police Officer Of Implicit Bias?
African American
Police
Shooting
No Matter Where You're From - You Can Be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-american - Whatever You Are, We're All Distant Relatives.
Native American
Italian
African American
I Would Argue That The Objective Evidence Shows That Big Government Is Not A Friend To African Americans.
Government
African American
Arguing
To Understand How Republicans Lost The African American Vote, We Must First Understand How We Won The African American Vote.
African American
Firsts
Vote
It Is Impossible For African-americans Not To Feel Like Their Government Is Particularly Targeting Them.
Government
African American
Impossible
And When The Time Is Right, I Hope That African Americans Will Again Look To The Party Of Emancipation, Civil Liberty, And Individual Freedom.
Party
African American
Liberty
There's Not An American In This Country Free Until Every One Of Us Is Free.
Country
African American
American Citizenship
I Don't Think People Have Been Able To Deal With The Fact That African American Filmmakers Can Make Movies About Life And Relationships.
Thinking
People
African American
Ain't No Sense Worryin' About The Things You Got Control Over, 'cause If You Got Control Over 'em, Ain't No Sense Worryin'. And Ain't No Sense Worryin' About The Things You Don't Got Control Over, 'cause If You Don't Got Control Over 'em, Ain't No Sense Worryin'.
Baseball
Worry
African American
I Did Not Get On The Bus To Get Arrested. I Got On The Bus To Go Home.
Home
African American
Bus
Our Mistreatment Was Just Not Right, And I Was Tired Of It.
Inspirational
Tired
African American
Nothing Came Easy. I Was Just Born With A Need To Explore Every Part Of My Mind. And With Long Searching And Hard Work, I Became Devoted To My Restlessness.
Hard Work
Long
African American
I Saw That The Camera Could Be A Weapon Against Poverty, Against Racism, Against All Sorts Of Social Wrongs. I Knew At That Point I Had To Have A Camera.
Racism
African American
Cameras
Groups Like The Naacp, The Anti-defamation League, Now And Glaad, Will Respond To Derisive Language Directed At Their Constituents. The Price Paid By Those Who Cavalierly Chose To Verbally Disrespect The Dignity Of African Americans, Jews, Women And Homosexuals Is Steep.
League
African American
Disrespect
The Most Important Thing Is To Be Happy And True To Yourself. I Don't Want To Look Back At This In 30 Years From Now And Say, 'i Did It All To Make Them Happy And I Didn't Enjoy.'
Inspiration
Years
African American
Considering The Popularity Of Soaps With The African-american Audience, It's Grotesque That The Entertainment Industry, For All Its Vaunted Liberalism, Is Lagging So Far Behind Social Changes In The United States. And Why Has There Never Been An All-black Daytime Network Soap? It Would Probably Blow The White Soaps Off The Map.
Blow
White
African American
Differences Can Be A Strength.
Differences
African American
I'm One Of The Few Black Writers, Or African American Writers, Who Managed To Work My Way Through The System So That It Has Allowed Me To Speak In A Kind Of Free Way. But Most African American Writers Don't Have That. They Don't Have That Opportunity, They Don't Have That.
Opportunity
African American
Black
I Want To Be Promoted In The Urban Areas. A Lot Of African-american People Should Know More About Me.
People
African American
Want
African Americans Have Always Known That A Little Bit Of Paranoia Was Healthy For Us.
African American
Healthy
Littles
They Throw The Ball, I Hit It. They Hit The Ball, I Catch It.
Sports
Baseball
African American
The Lives Of Most Men Are Patchwork Quilts. Or At Best One Matching Outfit With A Closet And Laundry Bag Full Of Incongruous Accumulations. A Lifetime Of Training For Just Ten Seconds.
Quilts
Men
African American
It's Been Obvious That [republicans]'re Doing Everything They Can To Make [obama] Fail. And I Hope, I Hope - And I Say This Seriously - I Hope That's Based On Substance And Not The Fact That He's African-american.
African American
Substance
Facts
No One Would Stand For It [being The Fool In The Media] In A Minute If You Took Any Other Group -native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, Women - But Somehow It's Okay To Do That With Hillbillies.
Native American
Media
African American
The Treatment Of African And African American Culture In Our Education Was No Different From Their Treatment In Tarzan Movies.
Education
Race
African American
[hillary] Clinton Was Able To Assemble A Winning Democratic Coalition Out Here, Beating Sanders Among African-americans, Women, Among Women, And Voters From Union Households, So, Unions, Women, African-americans.
Winning
African American
Unions
The African American Community Is So Under-served In The Entertainment Industry.
Community
African American
Entertainment
Being Alive And Being A Woman Is All I Got, But Being Colored Is A Metaphysical Dilemma I Haven't Conquered Yet.
Women
Feminist
African American
The First Job I Had With The Smithsonian Was As A Field Researcher Among African American Communities In Southwest Louisiana And Arkansas For The Festival.
Jobs
Community
African American
Coming Up In The African-american Culture, We Were Taught That We Belonged To The Universe And Society Was Wrong In The Way It Dealt With Us. We Had To Learn To Express And Affirm Values Not From The Winning Position.
Winning
African American
Culture
There Is No Way That We Know What Is Going On Between The African American And The Asian American. We Don't Understand What An Indigenous American Is. We Don't Understand What A Latino American Is
African American
Asian
Way
The Challenges African-americans Are Facing Today Are Rooted In The System Of Slavery.
African American
Challenges
Slavery
Whether You Come From A Council Estate Or A Country Estate, Your Success Will Be Determined By Your Own Confidence And Fortitude.
Confidence
Country
African American
I Believe That Each Of Us-no Matter What Our Age Or Background Or Walk Of Life-each Of Us Has Something To Contribute To The Life Of This Nation.
Believe
African American
Age
I Think If You Worked At The Community Level In Chicago And Then A Politician On The South Side Of Chicago, And Worked At The State Level, Then You're Pretty Familiar With All The Variations Of Politics In The African American Community And Criticisms You May Get. If You're Not Familiar With Those Or You Don't Have A Thick Enough Skin To Take It, Then You Probably Wouldn't Have Gotten Here.
Thinking
Community
African American
I Have 90 Percent Or 95 Percent Support In The African American Community And It's Not Sort Of "well, He's Black, So It's Okay. We're Not Going To Say Anything Even Though We're Seething." And I Hang Out With A Lot Of Middle-aged Black Women, And They're Not Casual In Their Support Of Me. There's A Lot Of Love Forthcoming. Partly Because They Understand The Constraints Of This Society. They Know That This Is Hard.
Community
Support
African American
Bernie Sanders Would Say, "you Still Have Millions Of African Americans Who Aren't Insured, And If We Had A Single-payer System, That Wouldn't Be The Case." And That's True.
African American
Cases
Stills
The Same Would Be True For Something Like Social Security, Where Historically, If You Just Read The Law And The Fact That It Excluded Domestic Workers Or Agricultural Workers, You Might Not See Race In It, Unless You Knew That That Covered A Huge Chunk Of African Americans, Particularly In The South.
Race
Law
African American
As An Elected Official Who Comes From The African-american Community, There Are Some Similarities. You Are Always Trying To Reconcile Your Own Personal Biography And Affiliations With The Demands Of The Broader Democracy. And You Need To Make Sure You Are Representing Everybody.
Always Trying
Community
African American
It Requires Enormous Energy For Us To Cut The African American Uninsured Rate By A Third. A Lot Of Scars.
Cutting
African American
Energy
I'm Named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-american.
African American
Hussein
Barack
It Will Be Up To Each Of You To Make Sure That Young People, African Americans, Latinos And Women Who Powered Our Victory In 2008 Stand Together Once Again.
People
African American
Victory
The Possible Has Been Tried And Failed. Now It's Time To Try The Impossible.
African American
Trying
Musician
We Were Segregated Throughout The Community, And It Was Pretty Brutal, Actually. It Didn't Appear To Be, On The Surface.people Got Along And We Had Great Relationships, But There Was Discrimination That Impacted Adversely The Ability Of The African-american Community To Progress. People Did Not - Were In Denial About That Fact.
People
Community
African American
So How Do Latinos Feel If There's A Big Investment Just In The African American Community, And They're Looking Around And Saying, "we're Poor As Well. What Kind Of Help Are We Getting?" Or Asian Americans Who Say, "look, I'm A First-generation Immigrant, And Clearly I Didn't Have Anything To Do With What Was Taking Place."
Community
African American
Asian
[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.
Talking
African American
Want
You Didn't Elect Me To Tell You What You Wanted To Hear. You Elected Me To Tell You The Truth.
Truth
African American
President
I Have Written A Song That Says: If You Ever Lose Someone Dear To You, Never Say The Words, "they're Gone," And They'll Come Back.
Song
Losing Someone
African American
When I Got My Success I Became Decadent For A While. This Was 2003 To 2008. I Fell For Tiramisu Really Hard. I've Become More Moderate Since, Because African-americans Are Prone To Diabetes.
African American
Diabetes
Moderates
After Four Hundred Years Of Slave Labor, We Have Some Back Pay Coming, A Bill Owed To Us That Must Be Collected.
Slave Labor
Years
African American
I'm Not Going To Sit At Your Table And Watch You Eat, With Nothing On My Plate, And Call Myself A Diner. Sitting At The Table Doesn't Make You A Diner.
African American
Watches
Sitting
African American Congressman Bobby Rush Wore A Hoodie On The Floor Of Congress To Make A Point This Week. And They Threw Him Out. They Said A Hoodie Is Too Scary For Congress. Too Scary? Have You Ever Looked Into Michele Bachmann's Eyes?
Eye
Scary
African American
I Can't Deny That It Will Be A Historic Event For An African-american To Become President. And Should That Happen, All Americans Should Be Proud - Not Just African-americans, But All Americans - That We Have Reached This Point In Our National History Where Such A Thing Could Happen. It Will Also Not Only Electrify Our Country, I Think It'll Electrify The World.
Country
Thinking
African American
There's No Question That There's Been A Breach In The Trust Between Urban - Especially Urban Community, African-american And Minority Communities And The Police In Major American Cities.
Cities
Community
African American
The Most Dangerous Place For An African-american In This Country Is In The Womb.
Country
African American
Womb
I Don't Use The Term "black" Very Often. I Use The Term African-american More Than I Use "black".
African American
Black
Use
Interestingly, A Lot Of The Polling That I See Is Not Along Racial Lines, But Along Generational Lines. We Are Doing Better And Better Among Younger People, Not So Well Among Older People, Whether They're African-american, Whether They're White Or Whether They're Latino.
White
People
African American
The Police Killings Of Unarmed African Americans Has Got To Stop.
African American
Police
Killing
We Did Really, Really Badly With Older African-american Voters. I Mean We Got Decimated.
Mean
African American
American Voters
The Good News Is That The American People, Not Just The African-american Community Are Saying Enough Is Enough. You Can`t Hold People In Custody And Suddenly Find Out That They Are Dead. You Can`t Shoot People In The Back.
People
Community
African American
There Are So Few Guys Who Do Action And Do It Well. Even Fewer Who Are African-american. Even Fewer Who Have Classical-theater Training. So A Cat Like Me Coming In, I'm Bringing All Of That To An Action Movie.
Cat
Guy
African American
The Greatest Lie Ever Told About Love Is That It Sets You Free.
Love
Lying
African American
I Was Very Fortunate To Be Able To Represent An Icon To Many African Americans.
Icons
African American
Able
The Average Late-night Viewer Is In Their Mid-50s And The Average Viewer Of Tbs Is In Their 30s And Is Largely African-american And Hispanic, Already, Before I Even Get There.
Night
Average
African American
I Feel Like I Come From A Smaller Off Shoot Of Black People Because I Am Mixed. People Say I’m African American But That Doesn’t Include The Other Half Of Me.
People
African American
Black
Racism Is Worse Than Ever. Violence Is Worse Than Ever. The Economy's Worse Than Ever. Unemployment's Worse Than Ever. And It's Democrats That Have Been Running The Show, With The First African-american President At The Top Of The Heap, And It Didn't Get Any Better?
Running
Racism
African American
The Whole Idea Of The First Female President Is Not Nearly As Momentous Or Exciting As The First African-american.
Ideas
African American
President
A Grievance Is A Political Action. It's Not Just African-americans.
Political
African American
Action
That Cracker Made A Lot Of African-american Millionaires.
Stupid
African American
Hateful
Donald Trump - Whatever He Was Warning The Democrats, Whatever He's Warning African-americans About - He Wasn't Criticizing Them. He Was Criticizing The Democrat Party. He Was Telling Them It's The Democrat Party That Has Made Their Bed For 'em, And It's Time That That Changed.
Party
African American
Bed
Barack Obama Happens To Be The First African-american, And So Criticism Of Him Is And Always Was Gonna Be Racism, And Therefore Not Permitted.
Racism
African American
Criticism
If We Do With Latinos What We Did With African-americans, Republicans And Conservatives Will Be Doomed.
African American
Politics
Republican
Take That Bone Out Of Your Nose And Call Me Back (to An African American Female Caller).
African American
Noses
Female
We All Remember That [donald] Trump Was One Of The Leaders Of The So-called Birther Movement Trying To Delegitimize The Presidency Of Our First African-american President Barack Obama, Which Is An Outrage.
Leader
African American
President
Sen. Joe Biden, On The Day Of Announcing His Candidacy For President Of The United States, Called Barack Obama The First Mainstream African-american Who Is Articulate, Bright, And . . . Clean. I Think We've Seen The Shortest Presidential Campaign In History.
Thinking
Presidential
African American
I'd Like To State That Spike Lee Is Not Saying That African American Culture Is Just For Black People Alone To Enjoy And Cherish. Culture Is For Everybody.
People
African American
Black
One Of The Great Things About African-americans Is That We've Always Had This Attitude: We Make Do With What We Got. It Comes From Our Ancestors Being Slaves.
Attitude
African American
Slave
We Had Two African American Writers [eric Monte And Michael Evans] On The Show ['good Times'] That Knew Cabrini Green Inside And Out, And That's Why We Set It There.
Two
African American
Green
Senator Sessions Has Opposed Protections For Lgbt Individuals. He's Spoken Out Against Freedom Corps' Marriage Equality Decision. He Opposed The Repeal Of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He Opposed The Nomination Of Loretta Lynch, The Nation's First African-american Woman To Serve As Attorney General. These Things Worry Me.
Worry
Decision
African American
I Was Taught From A Young Age That Many People Would Treat Me As A Second-class Citizen Because I Was African-american And Because I Was Female.
Class
People
African American
From Politics And Business To Music And Food To Culture, African-americans Have Helped To Shape Our State's Colourful Past And Its Future.
Business
Past
African American
The South Has Not Always Been The Friendliest Place For African-americans.
African American
South
I'm African American / I'm African / I'm Black As The Moon.
Moon
African American
Black
However, Research In The Years That Followed Found That In Many Of Its Important Features, African American Vernacular English Was Becoming Not Less, But More Different From Other Dialects.
Years
African American
Important
It Appears That The Present-day Form Of African American English Is Not The Inheritance Of The Period Of Slavery, But The Creation Of The Second Half Of The 20th Century.
African American
Half
Slavery
Are Things Getting Better With Each Generation? Yes. It's Quite Interesting To Be Living In These Times, For Me To Witness An African-american Being Elected President. It's Quite Extraordinary.
Interesting
African American
Get Better
My Mother Always Told Me To Embrace Both Sides Of My Background. And She Also Taught Me One Very Useful Thing When I Was Going To First Grade. She Said, "you're Bahamian And African-american On One Side, And Russian-jewish On The Other. You're No More One Than The Other, And It's Beautiful That You Have All This. It Makes Your Life All The More Rich. But Society Will See You Only As Black."
Beautiful
Mother
African American
A Man Can't Ride Your Back Unless It's Bent.
Wisdom
Men
African American
If We Are To Go Forward, We Must Go Back And Rediscover These Precious Values - That All Reality Hinges On Moral Foundations And That All Reality Has Spiritual Control.
Spiritual
Reality
African American
We All Too Often Have Socialism For The Rich And Rugged Free Market Capitalism For The Poor.
African American
Baptists
Socialism
African-americans Who Might Have Disagreed With Candidate Barack Obama's Left-of-center Politics Voted For Him In 2008 Because Electing A Candidate With Brown Skin Was Too Historic An Opportunity To Miss.
Opportunity
Missing
African American
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