Black youth Quote by Donald Jeffries

If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up…

— Neal Brennan

I think you will find that a lot of young African-Americans are really searching for, 'Who am I?' and 'Where did I come from?'…

— Linda Johnson Rice

“What would the black community be if we taught our children love, family values, self-respect, nonviolence, how to manage money, how to speak up…

— Lashaunda K. Jackson-Williams

“Only black people can use controversial racial terms such as “Negro.”

— Matthew Quick

My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in my small,…

— Kehinde Wiley

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

“Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or…

— Laura Yes Yes

“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America,…

— Malcolm X

“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“And my father, who never once in his life would have used the word 'nigger,' would smile and give an almost imperceptible laugh --…

— Anne Lamott

“Hey, man, I'm old school. Don't make me bust out the Easy-E and the N.W.A I will got straight up gangsta on your ass.…

— Alice Clayton

“I sometimes wish I could fine people every time they use black street slang to prove how hip they are.” “Yeah, I know what…

— Nalo Hopkinson