Because Quote by Isaiah Washington

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

— Rick Santorum

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is…

— Tillie Olsen

I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.

— Zach Braff

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“The term 'black' was given a rebirth by the black youth revolt. As reborn, it does not refer to the particular color of any…

— Chancellor Williams

Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being black is…

— Zozibini Tunzi

At various points in my own life, I have been laughed at scathingly for calling myself black.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

In the 1970s people were afraid to call me black because they thought it was an insult. They would say 'coloured.' Now it has…

— John Barnes

I don't see why black should be a negative and it's not negative. The people perpetrating that particular thought are wrong.

— John Barnes

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

I don't like the term 'black film,' and I am proud to be black.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

— Tina Turner