Hilton Als Quotes

I love being black.

Learn to love being black.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

We must canonize our own saints, create our own martyrs … black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to our racial history.

I like to think my work is furthering black culture by educating and empowering black people.

Black is beautiful.

Every February, we reflect on and honor the achievements, struggles, and icons that comprise Black history. As a proud, Black man running for office and raising two young, Black boys in the South, I am acutely aware that I stand on the shoulders of giants.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

I celebrate my blackness. I love the artistic vibrancy of the culture I was born to.

I feel good being a black woman; I've always felt good.

I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of the women and the men who came before us who are black, and I'm proud of the women before me who are black and who have achieved so much, even though we have so much against us, and we don't have those doors opening for us every day.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

I've always known the greatness of black people.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

I am for Obama, all the way. I don't support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

I do consider myself part of black history.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Black history is American history.

Make black history every day, I don't need a month

...They [Indians] should be made familiar with the lives of great and good men and women in American history, and be taught to feel a pride in all their great achievements. They should hear little or nothing of the 'wrongs of the Indians,' and of the injustice of the white race. If their unhappy race is alluded to, it should be to contrast it with the better future that is within their grasp.

Black power means Black dignity