Black Quote by Yvonne Orji Download Open image “There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.” — Yvonne Orji ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Narrative Storytelling Way
Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place. — Algee Smith Copy Share Image
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other. — William Barr Copy Share Image
Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers -… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think about the… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong. — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
There was nothing around me that would have given me heroes who happened to be Black. And I don't think anybody can understand how… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
My faith - as well as my Nigerian culture - really gave me the substance and foundation to be who I desire to be… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
My mom would always say, 'Hair is a woman's beauty.' I cut my hair all off. I was completely bald, and that was, like,… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I can only see what's in front of me, but God can see what's behind, what's ahead of me, what's beside me, and it… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I don't even know anyone who hasn't watched 'Sex and the City.' If you didn't, we can't be friends. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I remember, growing up, it wasn't sexy to be African. We got called names. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
