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“When I was a teenager, for example, others questioned my blackness because some of the life choices I made weren’t considered to be “black”…

— Issa Rae

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that…

— Steven Biko

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to…

— Clarence Thomas

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a…

— Michaela Coel

I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds…

— Halle Berry

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became…

— Eminem

A lot of my chosen family is black and I say that unabashedly. For anyone who doesn't understand that, they just don't understand me…

— Trace Lysette

We are born with freedom and hope, but often that's dashed because of our color. But in school, I'd already been taught that no…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called…

— Candace Owens

I went to a predominantly white school, and I was the only black girl. I can remember thinking, 'I don't want to be as…

— Kelly Rowland

Being black has a lot to do with my...

— Willi Smith

Growing up black, you are lied to and told to act in a way that isn't who you are.

— Rob Morgan