Rick Santorum Quotes

They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!

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

I am a Nubian.

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.

When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that.

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

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

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.

My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.

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

More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much.

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.

You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. And if you notice, I put American before my ethnicity. I'm not a hyphenated African-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American or Mexican-American.

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.