African american Quote by Maya Moore

We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the…

— RaMell Ross

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

— Kehinde Wiley

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

There are so many - namely black and brown bodies - who have experienced a different America than what the mainstream American flag symbolizes.

— Maya Moore

People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors,

— Torii Hunter

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad…

— J. C. Watts

I think the fact people still don't realise why people are taking a knee and saying 'Black Lives Matter,' people are being so close-minded…

— DeAndre Yedlin

When you're Black in America, you spend a lot of time counting firsts. The higher the first, the more we marvel (and shake our…

— Jonathan Capehart

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

— Jennifer Granholm

For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when…

— Ken Page

“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American white men…

— James Baldwin

That's what makes America great; the fabric and the core of our beliefs and our being is we wrap ourselves around diversity. We say…

— Jennifer Welter