About Quote by Bernice Johnson Reagon

Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can only speak…

— Yolanda King

I think that, as a black girl, you grow up internalizing all these messages that say you shouldn't accept your hair or your skin…

— Amandla Stenberg

It's important to hear the hard truths from Black voices, not filtered through the White Savior trope.

— Leslie Uggams

Our vulnerability is that both blacks and whites can use our impossible racial authenticity against us. Both races can throw up our mixed background…

— Shelby Steele

There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

— Kevin Young

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with…

— Viola Davis

There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if…

— Kelela

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world…

— Wolfman Jack

It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question…

— Issa Rae

“What would the black community be if we taught our children love, family values, self-respect, nonviolence, how to manage money, how to speak up…

— Lashaunda K. Jackson-Williams

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on…

— Denzel Washington

There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma.…

— Kerry James Marshall