Administration Quote by Randall Kennedy

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

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're…

— Keegan-Michael Key

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

— Henry Louis Gates

“the Afro-American experience, rejecting the false history, spurious logic, and expedient politics that collapse the situations of Afro-Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and indigenous…

— Barbara J. Fields

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

— Baron Vaughn

Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race, or, imagine…

— Santan Dave

I have spent my whole life earnestly believing the fundamental American dictum that a single 'drop of black blood' makes a person 'black' primarily…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

— Henry Louis Gates

I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost…

— Pam Grier

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

— Rick Santorum

One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken…

— Xavier Woods