Black people Quote by Kerry James Marshall

When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range…

— Kerry James Marshall

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this…

— Kerry James Marshall

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We…

— Paterson Joseph

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.

— Ad Reinhardt

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is.

— Michael Eric Dyson

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they…

— Boots Riley

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

— Rick Santorum

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

— Yvonne Orji

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as dark as…

— Kerry James Marshall