I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well. — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
We are used to filmmakers telling us what it means to be black in America and we're always instructing it, like we're… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life. — Rob Morgan Copy Share Image
If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption. — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
Barack Obama actually grew up black in America. He knows a thing or two about being judged by the color of his… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
At screenings for 'Black in America,' I've heard people say, 'Well you know, I never thought you were black until you did… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the… — Rza Copy Share Image
There's always opposition when you speak on topics like I'm speaking on. But I'm a black man in America. I grew up… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
When you're Black in America, you spend a lot of time counting firsts. The higher the first, the more we marvel (and… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Just me existing, as an openly black transgender woman from a working-class background, thriving, is a political act. My brother always reminds… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I'd try and find African-American people I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn't count on a thing, and… — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Copy Share Image
“Beloved, to be black in America is to live in terror. That terror is fast. It is glimpsed in cops giving chase… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms:… — H. Samy Alim Copy Share Image
I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a]… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
You know, I grew up Black in America, I grew up close to Spanish Harlem where we ain't have much money, but… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
There is no one way to be Black in America, but there is one way we live while Black in America. No… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Tupac has always been somebody who represented a higher consciousness of what it means on both sides of the coin to be… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
![“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms: "To become black is to become an ethnographer who translates and searches around in an effort to understand what it means to be black in North America."…” quote by H. Samy Alim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b7/h-samy-alim-175060_african-american_awad-ibrahim-sudanese-professor-of-educa_1372530.jpg)
![“Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.” quote by Chuck D](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/acd/chuck-d-2065_america_being-called-black-in-america-is-the-str_587153.jpg)
