Black Quote by Clarence Thomas

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

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second…

— Thomas Sowell

My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the same. We…

— Kamanda Ndama

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality…

— Wanda Sykes

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I…

— Rachel Dolezal

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed…

— Clarence Thomas

I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues, but often…

— Vijay Iyer

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then…

— Spike Lee

I don't want to be self-mythologizing, but I do feel like, growing up, on TV, there weren't a lot of young Black women who…

— Ayo Edebiri

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst…

— Lena Horne

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

I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing…

— Stuart Hall