American Quote by Kenya Barris

While as black people we've paid for our right to be in this country many, many times over, I still can't help but feel…

— Clive Lewis

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

— Taika Waititi

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

— Uzodinma Iweala

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and…

— Henry Louis Gates

I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more…

— Paul Reubens

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with…

— Viola Davis

The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.

— Rza

We all feel like outsiders when we're growing up. I think everybody feels like that.

— Taylor Russell

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

— Alicia Garza