Friendship Quote by Justin Simien

I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those…

— Justin Simien

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made…

— Eartha Kitt

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

— Clarence Thomas

I have to show off my struggle so that people accept that I'm black. No matter that every single room I go to, I'm…

— Daniel Kaluuya

I'm dark-skinned. When I'm around black people, I'm made to feel 'other' because I'm dark-skinned. I've had to wrestle with that, with people going,…

— Daniel Kaluuya

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

— Mark Bradford

I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are…

— Toni Morrison

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

— Michael Jordan

I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it…

— Dak Prescott

I'm a Black woman and I've always been told that I wasn't Black enough because of the way that I grew up, the experiences…

— Rachel Lindsay

If you're a black person in America, it's really hard to avoid being black. And what I mean is that the reality of your…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

— Ashton Sanders