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It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Barack Obama actually grew up black in America. He knows a thing or two about being judged by the color of his skin, rather…

— Neil Macdonald

Tupac has always been somebody who represented a higher consciousness of what it means on both sides of the coin to be black in…

— Kat Graham

We are used to filmmakers telling us what it means to be black in America and we're always instructing it, like we're teaching a…

— Nia DaCosta

Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the…

— Chuck D

You know, I grew up Black in America, I grew up close to Spanish Harlem where we ain't have much money, but we was…

— Jamaal Bowman

There is no one way to be Black in America, but there is one way we live while Black in America. No matter our…

— Jonathan Capehart

There's always opposition when you speak on topics like I'm speaking on. But I'm a black man in America. I grew up black in…

— Eric Reid

Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life.

— Rob Morgan

I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination…

— Newt Gingrich

At screenings for 'Black in America,' I've heard people say, 'Well you know, I never thought you were black until you did Katrina, and…

— Soledad O'Brien