Adventure Quote by Spike Lee

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

— Jessica Williams

One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken…

— Xavier Woods

“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip…

— Bonnie Greer

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who…

— Spike Lee

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

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad…

— J. C. Watts

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

— June Jordan

If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated from Africa.…

— Runoko Rashidi

Racial identity is chosen and given. It is as much a product of the world's perception of you as it is of your own…

— Ritchie Torres