Blackness Quote by J. C. Watts

I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any…

— J C Watts

I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member…

— Giancarlo Esposito

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'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues, but often…

— Vijay Iyer

I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.

— Colson Whitehead

My Blackness, my Latinidad, and my queerness all resonate in me equally and can't be separated from each other.

— Ariana DeBose

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all…

— Cory Booker

Whenever I ask myself what blackness means to me, I am struck by the parallels that exist between my predicament and that of many…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

— David Oyelowo

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

— Ayanna Pressley

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must…

— Henry Louis Gates

I really just prefer to be exactly who I am, and black is really the closest race and cultural category that represents the essence…

— Rachel Dolezal