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The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.

~Cheryl Mills

Topics: African African Americans American Haiti Haitian Heritage History Holds People Power Rich Role Strength The History Of Tremendous Unique

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My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive.

~Chili Davis

Topics: African African Americans American Back Back To School Berkeley Class Davis Decided Full Go Good Good Story Had Her Impressive Left Me Philippines Really Ride School She Sister Story Surprised Then Think Two Which I Think

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Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.

~Christine Tsai

Topics: African African Americans American Capitalists Color Disconnected Latinos Lot Other People Silicon Silicon Valley Unfortunately Valley Venture

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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: African African Americans American Battling Century Major Major Part Now Part Racism Spent 20Th Century

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African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

~Cynthia Mckinney

Topics: African African Americans Always American Bit Healthy Known Little Little Bit Paranoia Us

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Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

~Danny Glover

Topics: African African Americans American Bad Bad Times Black Country Death Experienced Good Good Times Half Look More People Percent Population Prison Prisoners Represent Row Since Than Those Times Unemployment

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I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

~Danny Glover

Topics: Able About African African Americans American Anger Community Family Film Happened Powerful Sleep Small Spirituality Things Very Within

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The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: African African Americans American Blow Commitment Degree Each Expectation Failure Fatalism Finally Going More Much Point Repeated Scenario Seems Skepticism Some Story Success Until Where Work

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The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for advancement.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Advancement African African Americans American Basic Believed Century Commitment Constant Course Education End Literacy Part People Ahead

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I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

~Daymond John

Topics: African African Americans American Apparel Business Example Kind Lack Lead Lead By Example Out Person Saw Set Something

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