Tina Turner Quotes

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!

Forget our special grievances and close ranks shoulder to shoulder with our white fellow-citizens.

I love black people, I love white people, I love yellow people.

I believe in 'Black' as much as I believe in 'Bajirao Mastani.'

Even when black folks make me angry, I know that the foundation is that I love us. I want us to win, and I want us to have all the things that we deserve in the world. And that's driven by love.

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.

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've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Learn to love being black.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

Our leader will not be a white man with a Black heart, nor a Black man with a white heart, but a Black man with a Black heart.

There can be no racial animosity, because there are no races.

I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat.

I just hope that when black people look at me, they don't see someone superhuman. They see themselves.

I still enjoy a lot of support from the black community.

I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

I'm proud to be biracial, and there's a lot of people that say things like, 'I don't see color,' and I completely understand that, but I think different is beautiful, but I think our difference shouldn't separate us, and for me in this era, in this time, in everything that we're going through, my whole thing is just about unity, man.

I want to see this nation united as opposed to divided. I don't want to see a race war as Donald Trump does.

I want to be known for what I am, black and white, because I'm proud of both.

Throughout my whole time in wrestling on the road, going out and being around some of the whitest people in the world, I've never had any problems with anybody. It was never black or white. Booker T was just a wrestler. I did that by design.

I want to create resolution and inclusion, so I created Black Santa because his eyes see no color.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.