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
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
“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
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
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
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
Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life. — Rob Morgan 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the… — Rza 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
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
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
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
