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It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a…

— Toni Morrison

When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with…

— Viola Davis

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

— Eddie Huang

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be…

— Alice Walker

While as black people we've paid for our right to be in this country many, many times over, I still can't help but feel…

— Clive Lewis

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

— Alicia Garza

I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

— Jay Saunders Redding

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