American Quote by Raoul Peck

I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis for our…

— Harry Belafonte

I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you…

— Spike Lee

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is…

— Glenn Ligon

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

— Eddie Huang

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

— Shawn Amos

We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas,…

— Viola Davis

African American culture is American culture.

— Salim Akil

We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try…

— Michael Emerson

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American…

— Gloria Naylor

There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class or, more…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more…

— Irvine Welsh

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

— Anonymous