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I want validation. I'm not ashamed to say that I need the world to validate me and for people to say, 'You are what…

— Mod Sun

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called…

— Candace Owens

People in my life have either supported me or doubted me. The only people I hear are the doubters. So, for me, I look…

— Rulon Gardner

If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-worth.

— Anonymous

I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar…

— Don Cheadle

You have to start looking in the mirror and saying, 'this is who I am, this is what I am and this is how…

— Charlamagne Tha God

I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member…

— Giancarlo Esposito

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my…

— Frantz Fanon

I don't need validation from people at all.

— Herm Edwards

“You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The…

— James Baldwin

I resent that I have to prove that I'm black.

— Daniel Kaluuya