Able Quote by Chico Hamilton

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

— Michael Jordan

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public…

— Stokely Carmichael

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

— Tina Turner

I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once…

— Kwame Dawes

I view myself as a multicultural woman who happens to be black.

— Wendy Williams

As a black person, I'm used to going to places in which I might be the only black person that shows up there. This…

— Kerry James Marshall

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud…

— Malcolm X

I'm able to take myself out of the celebrity bubble and the profile that I'm at, and look at what black people are going…

— Tobias Harris

I have to show off my struggle so that people accept that I'm black. No matter that every single room I go to, I'm…

— Daniel Kaluuya

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop…

— Sherman Alexie