Black Quote by W. Kamau Bell

I come from an era of black pride, black power, my father riding around listening to James Brown singing, 'Say it loud: I'm black…

— Charlamagne tha God

Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer be an…

— Luvvie Ajayi

I come from a proud, Black family, and generations of proud, Black women. So I've always grown up with that special armor, that ability…

— Jade Cargill

Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.

— Kendrick Lamar

Black people didn't start coming to see me until 1982. I'd just started doing Delbert, and suddenly my world changed. I started doing black-centred…

— Lenny Henry

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

I know there are a lot of eyes on me now from young girls, and it makes me so proud. The only Black woman…

— Misty Copeland

I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I thought it was quite…

— Romy Madley Croft

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

— John Legend

Many people early on actually thought I was a black performer!

— B. J. Thomas

My first black-on-black picture was 'The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.' I started using it as an emblem…

— Kerry James Marshall

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not…

— Denzel Washington