Born Quote by Orlando Jones

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.

— Angie Thomas

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

— Julian Bond

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

— Ashton Sanders

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

— Jay Saunders Redding

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

— H. Rap Brown

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through…

— Barack Obama

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black people created their own stereotype. Now its hard for me to be a educated young black man without being labeled as 'acting white.'

— Anonymous

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

— Robert Griffin III

I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.

— Tracy Morgan

A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime…

— James Forman, Jr