America Quote by Randall Kennedy

Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the…

— Chuck D

If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up…

— Neal Brennan

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else…

— Mary Church Terrell

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

— Malcolm X

What I thought about multi-ethnic Britain pre-Windrush and what I now know has, for me, changed for ever the meaning of the words black…

— Paterson Joseph

Go back and take a look at what some black writers were saying in the 1820s, the 1830s. They make mention of how some…

— Randall Kennedy

I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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

S-Something W-We A-Africans G-Got

— Musa Nkutha

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

— Muhammad Ali