Identity Quote by Shelby Steele

I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues, but often…

— Vijay Iyer

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

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then…

— Spike Lee

Different identity groups hold specific levels of power over others when their battles play out in the media. To wit: Black beats white. Gay…

— Andrew Breitbart

“As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60s, it is how infinitely complex any move for liberation must…

— Audre Lorde

“The term 'black' was given a rebirth by the black youth revolt. As reborn, it does not refer to the particular color of any…

— Chancellor Williams

“As Ellison's black protagonist exclaimed in Invisible Man, "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world,…

— James T. Patterson

Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an…

— Darryl Pinckney

Identity is becoming more dependent on what people are willing subscribe to and less dependent on objective criteria such as skin colour or where…

— Stuart Hall

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and…

— Angela Davis

Black folks in America are telling one party, 'We don't give a damn about you.' They're telling the other party, 'You've got our vote.'…

— Stephen A. Smith

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

— Lena Horne