Confused Quote by Clarence Thomas

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

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

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

— William Julius Wilson

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

— Rob Morgan

Everybody else is out being themselves at work, so I don't understand why black people have to change the way they talk in order…

— Deon Cole

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

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

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black' choices. For…

— Issa Rae

As African-Americans, we don't start with a blank slate, while other people may. In our position, there's always some sort of stereotype that is…

— Xavier Woods

It's understandable why a minority that was treated as badly as blacks in this country have been for so long would, when they finally…

— Bill Maher