African american Quote by Pam Grier

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

— Rick Santorum

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've…

— Whoopi Goldberg

I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African…

— Annie Elizabeth Delany

“I am not 'African American' —I am black American.”

— John McWhorter

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that…

— Irene Cara

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who…

— Spike Lee

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

— Nipsey Hussle

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then…

— Spike Lee