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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.

~Ana Navarro

Topics: Acceptable African-American Been Community Country Good Granted Ignored Long One Party Other Parties Party Taken Taken For Granted Think Too I Think

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I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

~Andre Benjamin

Topics: African-American Being Cary Grant Cowboys Dress Effect End Fathers Films Grant Hollywood How Indians Kids Lot Magazine Movies Old Pictures See Taught Teach Them Think Up You I Think

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My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.

~Andre Braugher

Topics: African-American Always Beings Broaden Characters Deepen Goal Human Human Beings Range Show Television Try

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Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.

~Andre Braugher

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Women's Studies, Queer Studies, African-American Studies, and Chicano Studies all produce culturally acceptable separatist and supremacy mind-sets and countenance movements that resemble those of white supremacists.

~Andrew Breitbart

Topics: Acceptable African-American Countenance Movements Produce Queer Resemble Studies Supremacy Those White Women

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I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

~Anita Hill

Topics: African-American Always Attempt Community Even Expense Our Our Community Ourselves Protect Think Though Trained Value Women I Think

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I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.

~Ann Aguirre

Topics: African-American Bisexual Books Character Characters Course Gay Hero Heroine Inclusive Jewish Korean Lesbian Over Series Supporting Three Tried Wrote

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I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

~Annie Ilonzeh

Topics: African-American American Color Come Family Father He Issue Me Mother Never Nigeria Rarely See Skin Skin Color White

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As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history of racism in America that, in large part, has its underpinnings in Christianity and its history. Those of us who teach American Religion have a responsibility to tell all of the story, not just the nice touchy-feely parts.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: African-American America American Christianity Historian History Just Just One Know Large Large Part Martin Moment Nice Part Parts Racism Religion Responsibility Story Teach Tell Those Us Who

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Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter into the seminary in the 1920s.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: African-American Catholic Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Contingent Enter First Large Many Movement Priests Prior Rights Rights Movement Segregated Seminary Were Would 1920S

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