African Americans

Famous quotes containing the words african and/or americans:

“I never feel so conscious of my race as I do when I stand before a class of twenty-five young men and women eager to learn about what it is to be black in America.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American college professor. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B3 (July 27, 1994)

“... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)