Because i can Quote by Fredi Washington

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

— Anthony Braxton

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

— Julian Bond

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made…

— Eartha Kitt

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

— Jackie Robinson

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

— Nat King Cole

I am black. What are you going to do about it?

— Adrian Piper

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must…

— Henry Louis Gates

I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar…

— Don Cheadle

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does…

— Oprah Winfrey

I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time…

— Marcus Garvey

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

— Anne Spencer