African american Quote by Richard Wright

As a black person, I'm used to going to places in which I might be the only black person that shows up there. This…

— Kerry James Marshall

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This…

— Jessica Williams

When you're Black in the United States, you grudgingly grow accustomed to having people deny that your existence is integral to everything that makes…

— Jonathan Capehart

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I…

— Rachel Dolezal

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities…

— Larry Doby

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life…

— Carl Bernstein

I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once…

— Kwame Dawes

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that…

— Steven Biko

“You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The…

— James Baldwin

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as…

— Halle Berry

I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel…

— George C. Wolfe