Amanda Seales Quotes

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

Learn to love being black.

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

I love being black.

Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.

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

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

Black history is American history.

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

I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think, 'Okay, he's carrying himself as a black man, and that's how a black man should carry himself.'

I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.

Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer be an afterthought. I started wearing it proudly, and as my consciousness deepened, so did my love for black folks.

Our Luke Cage is a black hero, not a hero who happens to be black.

I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there's an automatic understanding.

All Blaxploitation is, is the opportunity for an African-American cast or lead actor or actress to do the same things that a white action hero gets to do.

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

I love films. It's really funny, actually. Like, I see a lot of smaller movies. But a lot of these big, epic films that everyone's like, 'You have to see,' I haven't watched yet.

I'm not going to be one of those people who says, 'I'm a showrunner; I'm not a black showrunner.' I'm black when I go to sleep. I'm black when I wake up, period. It doesn't affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it.

From a very young age, I felt a spiritual, visceral, instinctual connection with 'black is beautiful.' Just the black experience and wanting to celebrate that. And I didn't know how to articulate that as a young child.

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