Black Quotes

If you ain’t wit us, We ain’t with you all.

Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Oppression is wrong. Species don’t matter.

I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I’m one of those scenarios.

Color don’t tell if people Black. It’s the soul.

I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

I shed skin after skin, seeking my true colors, expecting a rainbow or a stripe of black, but all I get are maps of red. We are all human underneath.