Black culture Quote by Xavier Woods

If you're a black person in America, it's really hard to avoid being black. And what I mean is that the reality of your…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

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

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

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then…

— Spike Lee

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

— Jessica Williams

If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated from Africa.…

— Runoko Rashidi

I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to…

— August Wilson

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

— Russell Simmons

And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents…

— Kenya Barris

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of…

— John Henrik Clarke

People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device.…

— Kerry James Marshall