Wadada Leo Smith Quotes

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

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.

My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

I'm an African American.

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

The story of Black Lives Matter starts before Black Lives Matter. The story of Black Lives Matter, for me, starts with my childhood.

I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.

The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

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

I know that my race must change.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

One must learn how to be black in America.

I do consider myself part of black history.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.