Black Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

— Benjamin Carson

I was responsible for having a clean image. I wanted people to have respect for black people.

— Leslie Uggams

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

— Will Rogers

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

— Thomas Sowell

He[Michael Jackson] had a joy in being alive. There was a joy you felt of him on the stage and making us not just…

— Cornel West

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a…

— Michaela Coel

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

— Tina Turner

“To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to…

— Barack Obama

“The term 'black' was given a rebirth by the black youth revolt. As reborn, it does not refer to the particular color of any…

— Chancellor Williams

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst…

— Lena Horne

to be black is to be very-hot.

— Haki R. Madhubuti