Art Quote by Angela Rye

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

— Clarence Thomas

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

Growing up I thought I might be the only black person in the world.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I was born black and female.

— Lorraine Hansberry

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my…

— Frantz Fanon

I was a weird Black girl. I still am. But growing up, if you get told your interests are weird or not Black enough,…

— Ayo Edebiri

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there…

— Issa Rae

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not…

— Denzel Washington

I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.

— Darius Rucker

People often expect that I should know a lot of things because I'm black. I don't really explain it to people, but it's like,…

— Keiynan Lonsdale

I learned at an early age how to traverse the white world, the white-dominant world. I learned, and I was successful at it. I…

— Ron Stallworth

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

— Tina Turner