Gangster Quote by Justin Simien

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced…

— Roy Ayers

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So…

— Jess Row

Before I came out, there was no such thing as a black conciousness movement. Kids on the street didn't know who Malcom X or…

— KRS-One

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better…

— Jerry Leiber

I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies,…

— Zoe Kravitz

I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was…

— Moshe Kasher

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

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I…

— Rachel Dolezal

I was the first black man on television.

— Scatman Crothers

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we…

— Jerry Leiber

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it…

— Ice Cube