Black Quote by Yvonne Orji

“As a traumatised black nation, we never go to therapists and shrinks, but we got to church instead.”

— Mthokozisi Radebe

I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized.

— Nicole Byer

In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to people of…

— Gabrielle Dennis

I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites in African-American…

— Michael Emerson

I come from a family and a heritage where you don't really go to therapy unless you're crazy. I want people to know that…

— Eva Mendes

It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've…

— Morgan Parker

One thing I can say as far as people from black communities dealing with trauma or PTSD is putting some trauma centers or some…

— Polo G

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I…

— Cory Booker

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.

— Howard Dean

Therapy is not a 'white thing.' It's a clinical thing.

— Rosie Perez

I go to a church that's an interracial church.

— Dabo Swinney

Some black women hug me and walk away. A lot of black men talk about dating white women and how they've been there, too.…

— Daniel Kaluuya