Accident Quote by Ol Parker

The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a…

— Desmond Tutu

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is…

— Thylias Moss

I notice I have both African and Belgian characteristics.

— Mousa Dembele

I sometimes think that the reason I was mistaken for a Rwandan is because other countries don't expect that an American diplomat is black.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

“Her father was an intimidating man who held fast to his belief in his African heritage; that black should not marry white to avoid…

— Katherine Vogel

“England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It is at this level that racism is treated as a question of persons. �There are a few hopeless racists, but you must admit…

— Frantz Fanon

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

— Ida B. Wells

Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are…

— Darius McCrary

Trying to understand, inside, what it is to be Ugandan was crucial to the character, because there are Ugandan ways of doing things that…

— Forest Whitaker

For a black person who's Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that's a completely different relationship with being black and…

— Santan Dave