Black people Quote by Issa Rae

As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black' choices. For…

— Issa Rae

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at…

— Walter Dean Myers

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

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were…

— Joe Biden

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just…

— James McBride

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

“Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or…

— Laura Yes Yes

“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“What would the black community be if we taught our children love, family values, self-respect, nonviolence, how to manage money, how to speak up…

— Lashaunda K. Jackson-Williams

There was a point where people would mention that I was black everyday.

— Lil Tracy

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is…

— Danny Glover

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