Accept Quote by Candace Owens

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

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

— Chuck D

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

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

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

— Mark Bradford

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

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning…

— Malcolm X

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

— Rob Morgan

Have I had experiences by other people identifying me as black and behaving towards me as black? Yes. Just for as long as maybe…

— Rachel Dolezal

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

— Steven Biko

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does…

— Oprah Winfrey