Black person Quote by Lena Waithe

You have to be resilient to be a black person in America. The thing about being resilient is being able to fall apart and…

— Teyonah Parris

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

— James Earl Jones

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

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

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

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

— Mos Def

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

— Baron Vaughn

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

— Roxie Roker

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room…

— Brian Tyree Henry

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a…

— John Mayer

There was nothing around me that would have given me heroes who happened to be Black. And I don't think anybody can understand how…

— Paterson Joseph

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