America Quote by Cynthia Erivo

The thing that disturbs me the most, being in England, is that on the screen we don't see very many of us - there…

— Cynthia Erivo

Obviously, I can't tell the story of what it is to be a black girl, but maybe I can tell something else. Girlhood is…

— Celine Sciamma

When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock…

— Buchi Emecheta

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

— Ashton Sanders

Sometimes being a woman - a Black woman in the world - you kind of settle for less.

— Coco Gauff

There were very few British black women on TV or in music when I was a teenager; when you're growing up, you need someone…

— Alesha Dixon

Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In…

— Skye Townsend

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

As a Black woman and a Black person my experience has been very different. I have a deep love and connection for my country…

— Madeleine Madden

I don't know that I constantly think about being a black woman.

— Susan Kelechi Watson

I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.

— Tracy Morgan

What I say about myself, black footballers or black pop stars is that we have been 'elevated out of blackness.' Because when people see…

— John Barnes