Black Quote by Emily Raboteau

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

— John Legend

Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

— Benjamin Carson

Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor…

— Colson Whitehead

Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been…

— Ezra Jack Keats

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made…

— Cicely Tyson

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

— Adrian Younge

I never quite lived up to the image of the black man as I saw it growing up. I was never listening to the…

— Justin Simien

“Before moving to America, I did not see the world through a "Black" lens...We had doctors, teachers, wealthy men. Indeed, we had successful men…

— Sun Yung Shin

I know there are a lot of eyes on me now from young girls, and it makes me so proud. The only Black woman…

— Misty Copeland

I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as…

— Benjamin Franklin

I have always drawn strength from my late mother's life. When Eunice Johnson set up the first major fashion show for African-American audiences more…

— Linda Johnson Rice

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