Black Quote by Charles Mingus

I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too…

— Charles Mingus

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

— Nat King Cole

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my…

— Frantz Fanon

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either.…

— Anthony Braxton

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find…

— Ornette Coleman

I was a Black man before I was a basketball player.

— Jerami Grant

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

— Sam Phillips

I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified…

— Fredi Washington

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.

— Jayne Cortez

Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of…

— Karl Malone

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was…

— Henry Louis Gates

Listen to David Lammy, an archetypal successful black man. If you turn the screen off so that you are listening to him on radio…

— David Starkey