African american Quote by Marian Wright Edelman

The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way it dealt…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just…

— James McBride

I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value…

— Michael B. Jordan

Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could imagine, this…

— Shaun King

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was.…

— Daley Thompson

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life,…

— Coretta Scott King

When I was a kid, I used to think about what my worth was.

— Jimmy Graham

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life…

— Carl Bernstein

I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on…

— Tionne Watkins

I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all…

— Rita Moreno