Black Quote by Masaba Gupta

I love being black. People look at me like I'm crazy cause I love myself, and I look at them like they need a…

— Taisha N Wright

At various points in my own life, I have been laughed at scathingly for calling myself black.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I would get so angry whenever I'd notice people looking at me weirdly. They'd even stop me on the street and ask questions about…

— Khoudia Diop

I got bullied and got pulled backwards in my wheelchair and laughed at. I was the only Black person at my school, so I…

— Nicolas Hamilton

I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

— Amanda Seales

I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change…

— James Weldon Johnson

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my…

— Laverne Cox

As a black woman, there's so much pride and communication through hair. It's naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be…

— Kelela

I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African, but because of my light eyes I did not get away with…

— Princess Michael of Kent

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

If you look up, and you see that all of a sudden the world is really coming down on people with brown hair, I…

— Kamasi Washington

It was a reaction to when I was growing up, and women were supposed to be all blonde hair, gold suntan, and pink lips.…

— Siouxsie Sioux