African american Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

— Langston Hughes

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

— Anthony Braxton

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

— Jay Saunders Redding

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

— Julian Bond

I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

— David Oyelowo

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.

— Clarence Thomas

I never said I wasn’t Black… I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal…

— Raven-Symone

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed…

— Clarence Thomas

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad…

— J. C. Watts

I identify as African American. I identify as Black. Black is something I share with other descendants of Africa, African-American is something I share…

— Jamilah Lemieux

For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.

— Regina Brett