Other countries get to support/cheer their athletes and…

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 when I'm…

— Kola Boof

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

— Kehinde Wiley

We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try…

— Michael Emerson

For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start…

— Gabby Douglas

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

— Colson Whitehead

I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children…

— Kola Boof

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

— Uzodinma Iweala

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the…

— Maya Angelou

The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than…

— Malcolm X

“You look like a black American" was his ultimate compliment, which he told her when she wore a nice dress, or when her hair…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Although Chester wrote about Harlem and black workers struggling to get ahead, he was reared in the Deep South and Cleveland, the middle-class child…

— Lawrence P. Jackson

I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love…

— Matthew Healy

“Mr. Berkowitz clicks open his black American Tourister rolling suitcase. Inside, his tools: a microscope, an old canister with the faded label “vegetable flakes,”…

— A.J. Jacobs

In looking at difficulties in the black American community over the years, it has always astounded me how much white Americans take for granted…

— Shelby Steele

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of…

— August Wilson