African american Quote by Colson Whitehead

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

— John Wells

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

— Ruby Bridges

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets,…

— Richard Wright

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

— Jamaica Kincaid

We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.

— Malaak Shabazz

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started…

— Sadiq Khan

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

— Marc Lamont Hill

“The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that seduces us…

— bell hooks

Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together…

— Mary Church Terrell

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism…

— Carol Moseley Braun

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first…

— Jordan Peele

I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ...…

— Adrienne Rich