Always Quote by Chance The Rapper

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

— Larry Holmes

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

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

— Ashton Sanders

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

— Mos Def

I'm black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I've been stopped because I fit a description…

— Brian Flores

You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.

— Justin Simien

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

Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race, or, imagine…

— Santan Dave

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

— Jayson Blair

It's not that I try to be Black. I am Black.

— Jasmine Crockett

Black people created their own stereotype. Now its hard for me to be a educated young black man without being labeled as 'acting white.'

— Anonymous

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