Believe Quote by Audra McDonald

“I've often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless. You may be able to…

— Zinzi Clemmons

As a black woman I always felt growing up I had to do above and beyond stuff to be noticed, to feel like I…

— Crystal Dunn

You have to start looking in the mirror and saying, 'this is who I am, this is what I am and this is how…

— Charlamagne Tha God

To be raised as a man of color in America - especially a black man, and particularly a very dark black man - is…

— Cord Jefferson

Rise above yourself.

— Thomas Leonard

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

— Joel Osteen

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't…

— Alan Moore

Growing up black, you are lied to and told to act in a way that isn't who you are.

— Rob Morgan

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that…

— Steven Biko

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

— Alice Walker

I am not renouncing my blackness and going on about my day. I am rejecting the legitimacy of the entire racial construct in which…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.

— James Dobson