“A white American can orbit the earth, but a black American can’t enter a restroom.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American. — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of… — Gilad Atzmon Copy Share Image
It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.' — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
As a young black American you become desensitised to it, it's just like 'oh, another guy, another kid died today.' That's so,… — DeAndre Yedlin Copy Share Image
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people.… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Questlove is an artist who I respect because he constantly shifts within the idiom, challenging perceptions of hip-hop and black American culture. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“But I remain what I was when I started my vocation, my pilgrimage of self-discovery: a black preacher. It is for that… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Throughout every presidency since the heist of our country from indigenous peoples, the black American experience has been exceptional in its discomfort.… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“The overriding problem with BGFs is not rooted in the fact that they are Greek-letter organizations with unique practices or that their… — Ricky L. Jones Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body… — Skye Townsend Copy Share Image
“Although Chester wrote about Harlem and black workers struggling to get ahead, he was reared in the Deep South and Cleveland, the… — Lawrence P. Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“She’d heard of black American Express cards before, because famous people had them, and now she was holding one with her name… — Michelle Madow Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant Linh said, “Thank you for this valuable information, it gives us an opportunity to take counter-measures to nullify the American attack!… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“It is, indeed, one of the basic moral blindspots of American conservatism that its intellectual and leadership energy have never been focused… — Martin Kilson Copy Share Image
“While stationed in Fort Jackson, I experienced racial prejudice for the first time and came to the understanding that humans are not… — Omanson, Oliver Copy Share Image
“For what people of color quickly come to see—in a sense the primary epistemic principle of the racialized social epistemology of which… — Charles W. Mills Copy Share Image
“I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
I lament that Paris can be a threatening space for Jews, Roma, Africans and Arabs, but the truth is, as a black… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular. — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Exposing Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam's wicked radicalization of black American males must become a key component of our national… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
