African american Quote by Keegan-Michael Key

I have spent my whole life earnestly believing the fundamental American dictum that a single 'drop of black blood' makes a person 'black' primarily…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

One drop of black blood and you're black. That was the rule. That's what kept the wall between whites and blacks was this one…

— Shelby Steele

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

— Henry Louis Gates

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or…

— Edward Brooke

Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop…

— Randall Kennedy

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

— Henry Louis Gates

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

— Langston Hughes

“the Afro-American experience, rejecting the false history, spurious logic, and expedient politics that collapse the situations of Afro-Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and indigenous…

— Barbara J. Fields

Every drop of blood meant something.

— Seventh Day Slumber

The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be…

— Kerry James Marshall

No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my…

— Edmonia Lewis

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

— Nipsey Hussle