Black Americans Quotes

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.