Big mistake Quote by Irene Cara

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

— Rick Santorum

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in…

— August Wilson

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest…

— Jewell Jackson McCabe

In America, black is a country.

— Amiri Baraka

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else…

— Mary Church Terrell

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

— Jessica Williams

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together…

— Mary Church Terrell

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost…

— Pam Grier