African american Quote by Opal Tometi

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to…

— Opal Tometi

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

— Wadada Leo Smith

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

— August Wilson

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all…

— Barack Obama

While I might not have a specific experience that is fully American, there is still a knowledge, something that I logically understand as a…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.

— Chance The Rapper

I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.

— Bill Duke

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience…

— Dinaw Mengestu

The Black experience in America now includes everything, all the way up to being the president of the United States.' But there's genres for…

— Cord Jefferson

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