Black Quote by Tyler Perry

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

— Tyler Perry

Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary;…

— Yance Ford

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is…

— Danny Glover

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

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

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's…

— Clarence Thomas

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

— Danny Glover

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a…

— Derrick Bell

Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this…

— Kenneth I. Chenault

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and…

— Henry Louis Gates

You have to be resilient to be a black person in America. The thing about being resilient is being able to fall apart and…

— Teyonah Parris