Being Quote by Kelela

It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question…

— Issa Rae

I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.

— Adrian Pasdar

We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think…

— Tamron Hall

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

“Resisting the stereotypes and affirming other definitions of themselves is part of the task facing young Black women in both White and Black communities.”

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

— Anthony Braxton

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

— Clarence Thomas

I'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way.

— Ryan Murphy

When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

— Kevin Grevioux

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

— Chuck D

I decided to write 'Dear Black Girls,' because, you know, we have that double minority. It's like, 'OK, I'm Black,' and I'm like, 'OK,…

— A'ja Wilson

It's really interesting when I go into a community where they haven't seen me before because I often get, 'I didn't know you were…

— Andrew Gillum