Enough Quote by Reg E. Cathey

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a…

— Jackie Robinson

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

— Shirley Chisholm

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

— C. C. H. Pounder

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

— Marco Pierre White

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

— Jayson Blair

I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community…

— Hines Ward

I'm black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I've been stopped because I fit a description…

— Brian Flores

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

— Marilyn French

My background is: I'm a Black man in America, victim of police brutality, victim of institutional racism, working-class from working-class roots.

— Jamaal Bowman

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds…

— Halle Berry