Jesse Williams Quotes

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

Black people, we are not this monolithic group, you know?

There isn't just one black experience out here.

Well who's black and what is a black person?

I am definitely a person of color.

When it comes to racial issues, I'm very passionate about young girls just loving who they are in their own skin. Because I remember going to an all-white school and being the only black girl in an all-white school, think - looking around me, thinking there's no one else here that looks like me.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

My whole life is an interracial relationship! It's inescapable. I am who I am.

I don't think there is enough understanding of how diverse black America actually is.

I love my brownness.

I view myself as a multicultural woman who happens to be black.

When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.

In the '90s, I was the only kid around that looked like me.

I've always considered myself a person of color.

I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.

I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink.

Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to be a radical, not a conservative. I no longer cared to play that game ... The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds - social, economic, even ethnic - yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but that did not mean we had to think alike

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'

I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.