African american Quote by Roger Ross Williams

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

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of…

— Opal Tometi

As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling helps you…

— Laz Alonso

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

There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small or silver…

— Jenna Wortham

We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the…

— RaMell Ross

I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited in documentaries,…

— Elvis Mitchell

I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around the time…

— Ayana Mathis

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

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

— Kehinde Wiley