Being Quote by Justin Simien

As a Black woman you do have to work harder for everything. The world is not going to hand you things.

— Jaz Sinclair

Being a black person in America is exhausting.

— Lena Waithe

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads.…

— Erykah Badu

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

— Nicole Beharie

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

— Larry Holmes

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

— Mike Tyson

It's the reality of being Black in this country. You can have money, and you can be a benefactor and a leader in your…

— Young Dolph

As Black women, we know that there's an expectation of us to fail in some way. So we have to work a thousand times…

— Myha'la

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs…

— Chance The Rapper

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a…

— John Mayer

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

— Viola Davis