“Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two A...” — Bam Adebayo Quote

“Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two Americas we're living in. They don't want us to be equal.”

“I didn't want to be looked at as a below-the-poverty-line kid. But now I think, that trailer is where I got the ambition. The anger. If we had a better life, I wouldn't be here. That trailer made me.”

“As I started getting better and I had to go places and meet new people, there were times where you just couldn't keep to yourself. You had to speak to people.”

“A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.”

“There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.”

“The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.”