Steven Biko Quotes

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

Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they were black. So I can represent an ideal, and with that, you can demonstrate that there is nothing to be afraid of, nothing to run from, and that, in fact, a good deal of beauty that resides there.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.

I want to give my daughter that Caribbean influence. But also, just being a black girl in this country, I want her to grow up with culture and confidence, and with love.

I celebrate my blackness. I love the artistic vibrancy of the culture I was born to.

Not only did I always know I was black, I always knew we were and are beautiful, culturally rich, and creators of everything from the sciences to the arts.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

I've always known the greatness of black people.

To be young, gifted and black!

Who can be born black and not exult!

When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

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

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

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.

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

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.'

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

I'm so proud to be a black woman; I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.

I love being black.