Black Quote by Thomas Sowell

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

— Richard Pryor

I don't think being white defines who I am.

— Paul Wall

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to…

— Clarence Thomas

To this day it is all but impossible for me to actually stop and think of my parents as white and black or to…

— Shelby Steele

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that…

— Anonymous

I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be…

— Mabel

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made…

— Eartha Kitt

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 know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

— Chuck D

Never have I once identified myself as white.

— Shaun King

Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt…

— Clarence Thomas