"It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them."
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"I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans."
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"I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive."
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"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."
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"People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone."
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"There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports."
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"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."
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"Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself."
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"When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall black African - or African-American built such and such. And you start seeing these character descriptions and seeing that, oh, you're only going in for the ones that are described as your look."
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"I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief."
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"The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual."
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"There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it."
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"After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected."
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"When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor."
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"The fact is, yes, statistically, African Americans and Latinos are getting hit harder, but it`s something that we can have real solidarity across racial lines on, to raise the minimum wage, to lower the cost of going to college, to make sure there`s real consumer protection."
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"My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?""
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"We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that."
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"My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced."
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"The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched."
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"We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else."
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