American Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're…

— Keegan-Michael Key

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

— Henry Louis Gates

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or…

— Edward Brooke

The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be…

— Kerry James Marshall

One drop of black blood and you're black. That was the rule. That's what kept the wall between whites and blacks was this one…

— Shelby Steele

No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my…

— Edmonia Lewis

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

— Henry Louis Gates

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

— Lena Waithe

If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called…

— Candace Owens

Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop…

— Randall Kennedy

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation…

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much…

— Baratunde Thurston