African american Quote by Jamilah Lemieux

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

— Janice Dickinson

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

— Nipsey Hussle

I do identify myself as a black man before I identify myself as a gay man.

— Jason Collins

I identify as black.

— Rachel Dolezal

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

— Lena Horne

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

Identity is very personal...identity is political. My identity is what is and it is what it's gonna be. And I don't think that any…

— Jamilah Lemieux

Identity is becoming more dependent on what people are willing subscribe to and less dependent on objective criteria such as skin colour or where…

— Stuart Hall

I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.

— Ayanna Pressley

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew…

— Wyatt Cenac

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

— Robert Griffin III

I'm an American; I'm not an African-American. I'm an American.

— Raven-Symone