Black Quote by Bobby Fischer

I believe it's important to have equal opportunities as a black actor. My way of fighting for it is through my art, by not…

— Malachi Kirby

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 was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.

— Katrina Adams

I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds…

— Halle Berry

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is…

— Danny Glover

I have never made a decision based on race and never will. I am admiring of my fellow peers, black film-makers and black actors…

— Cuba Gooding Jr

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only…

— Jackie Robinson

If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans are equal.…

— Venus Williams

If you are black then you have to be better than your white counterpart to be equal. That's life.

— John Barnes

The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were…

— Leontyne Price

Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men,…

— Angela Davis

Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was…

— Clint Smith