African american Quote by Wynton Marsalis

“...we have to be aware of the power and importance of organizing not just around identity, but the materiality of daily life, which still,…

— Manning Marable

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew…

— Wyatt Cenac

The most important thing in my life is that trying to ameliorate, redeem, the image in particular of African American men, or Black men…

— Harry Lennix

I think being biracial is a different experience. I think that, and coming from the U.K., I feel as much white as I do…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

In every project, I always look for the depth of humanity inside of it. I'm just trying to say if we can help in…

— Forest Whitaker

I find myself increasingly forced to think of my ethnic identity instead of the national identity I adopted as a boy in 1976. That…

— Max Boot

Racial identity is chosen and given. It is as much a product of the world's perception of you as it is of your own…

— Ritchie Torres

There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as…

— Barack Obama

I really just prefer to be exactly who I am, and black is really the closest race and cultural category that represents the essence…

— Rachel Dolezal

I view myself as a multicultural woman who happens to be black.

— Wendy Williams

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

I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based on race,…

— Shenaz Treasury