Blood Quote by Forest Whitaker

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This…

— Jessica Williams

I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I…

— Mem Fox

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing…

— Liz Murray

For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times - as…

— Kehinde Wiley

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I…

— Rachel Dolezal

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of…

— Edgar Mitchell

You're not an African because you're born in Africa. You're an African because Africa is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your…

— Marimba Ani

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

— Fela Kuti

“It might make me seem more human at this point, which is to say more sympathetic, if I were to declare that I itched…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It was an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to think (though immediately I mocked the idea), making normally talkative people like the Bolognan…

— Roberto Bolaño