African Quote by Whoopi Goldberg

I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African…

— Annie Elizabeth Delany

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost…

— Pam Grier

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to…

— Herman Cain

“I am not 'African American' —I am black American.”

— John McWhorter

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

— Herman Cain

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

— Nipsey Hussle

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

— Robert Griffin III

I am not an African. I am an American.

— Albert Murray

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

— Rick Santorum

I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.

— Zach Braff

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else…

— Mary Church Terrell

I'm an American; I'm not an African-American. I'm an American.

— Raven-Symone