Celebrate Quote by Alicia Garza

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

— Bozoma Saint John

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst…

— Lena Horne

Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what…

— Charles Barkley

Black History Month celebrates the ability to achieve the 'unachievable' and exemplifies that anything is possible with faith, fortitude, and fearlessness.

— Byron Donalds

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

— Lena Waithe

Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being black is…

— Zozibini Tunzi

I really just prefer to be exactly who I am, and black is really the closest race and cultural category that represents the essence…

— Rachel Dolezal

“To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to…

— Barack Obama

Being black is the new awesome.

— Anonymous

It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more…

— John Ridley