America Quote by Harry Belafonte

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery.…

— Herman Cain

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the…

— J. August Richards

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the…

— Michael Moore

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin…

— Sarah Jones

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

— Kehinde Wiley

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of…

— Opal Tometi

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

— August Wilson

My family, friends and community members rarely spoke about race relations, or how people from different races have different experiences growing up in America.…

— Joe Thomas

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

— Terry Gross

As a Black woman and a Black person my experience has been very different. I have a deep love and connection for my country…

— Madeleine Madden

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

— Constance Baker Motley