African american Quote by Torii Hunter

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

— Baron Vaughn

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

— Jessica Williams

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

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

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

We is black people.

— Wiz Khalifa

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

— Donald Johanson

I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.

— Bubba Wallace

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

— Nipsey Hussle

Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.

— Andre Braugher

Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.

— Oliver Tambo

Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they…

— Malcolm X