America Quote by Jodie Turner-Smith

As a Black woman and a Black person my experience has been very different. I have a deep love and connection for my country…

— Madeleine Madden

I am a black woman, and my experiences would not be what they are if I wasn't. I'm so happy to share those experiences…

— Misty Copeland

I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.

— Bill Duke

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of…

— Opal Tometi

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is…

— Alicia Keys

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to…

— Opal Tometi

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

— Wadada Leo Smith

I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black…

— Uzodinma Iweala

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all…

— Barack Obama

My experience as a black woman in the industry is simply that often I was the only one in the room. Often I would…

— Courtney A. Kemp

I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.

— Tracy Morgan