African American World . Profiles . Who Said That?

Witty with words? You can put your epigram energy to work here. We've put together a collection of classic quotes that need to be matched with their owners. See how many you know! If you've got a great quote we've missed, send it in and you might see it featured in an upcoming Who Said That?.

	"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
	Charlie Parker Louis Armstrong Dizzy Gillepsie Quincy Jones
	"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky. My name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Get used to me."
	Malcolm X Stokely Carmichael Muhammad Ali Huey Newton
	"Paris is the dance and I am the dancer."
	Katherine Dunham Alvin Ailey Josephine Baker Gregory Hines
	"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
	Marcus Garvey A. Phillip Randolph Paul Robeson W.E.B. Du Bois
	"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
	Frederick Douglass Martin Luther King, Jr. Mary Church Terrell Ella Baker
	"I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church."
	Ralph Abernathy Benjamin L. Hooks Ida B. Wells Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
	"In my music, my plays, my films I want to carry always this central idea: to be African. Multitudes of men have died for less worthy ideas; it is even more eminently worth living for."
	Spike Lee Oscar Micheaux Paul Robeson John Singleton
	"You may shoot me with your words; You may cut me with your eyes; You may kill me with your hatefulness; But still, like air, I'll rise."
	Maya Angelou Gwendolyn Brooks Amiri Baraka Rita Dove
	"Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can."
	Jackie Robinson Wilt Chamberlain Arthur Ashe Tiger Woods
	"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
	Daisy Bates Julian Bond Jesse Jackson Fannie Lou Hamer