Barack Obama Quotes

I've always known the greatness of black people.

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

Wakanda, in short, is the Africa of black dreams.

Every February, we reflect on and honor the achievements, struggles, and icons that comprise Black history. As a proud, Black man running for office and raising two young, Black boys in the South, I am acutely aware that I stand on the shoulders of giants.

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

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

Learn to love being black.

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

I love being black.

Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.

Black excellence is a thing. People - from Beyonce Knowles to Venus and Serena Williams to folks you haven't heard of - are into it. It's less a movement than a standard: believers set the bar high not only for themselves but also for others who share their vision, especially when it pertains to black history, stories, and style.

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'

The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.

Universal Negro Improvement Association

We must canonize our own saints, create our own martyrs … black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to our racial history.

Negro President

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.'