Black people Quote by Deon Cole

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I want everybody to be blacker. Start talking black at work. You ain't gotta change your voice at work anymore.

— Deon Cole

I don't understand why black people feel this undying need to want to be down with white people all the time.

— Tony Rock

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud…

— Kanye West

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

Something that people talk about a lot in the Black community is how Black women hold it up, basically, and Black women don't get…

— Nia DaCosta

It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't…

— Q-Tip

When I walk into work and I see a predominantly white room, I'm like, 'But why?' It doesn't need to be like this. There…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to…

— Clarence Thomas

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

— Baron Vaughn

I think that, as a black girl, you grow up internalizing all these messages that say you shouldn't accept your hair or your skin…

— Amandla Stenberg

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

— William Julius Wilson