J. C. Watts Quotes

We [American Blacks] are a nation within a nation, looking for a nationality

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

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!

Nationalism usually conquers in the name of a putative folk culture.

The relationship of a people to their homeland is crucial. A people will naturally have a difficult time maintaining a common cultural identity without a collective presence in their homeland. Only in its homeland can a people develop economically, culturally and socially as a homogeneous entity. In fact, this is the crux of why some of us consider it necessary to struggle to live in our homeland.

African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life.

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.

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

I'm determined to not let my skin colour or the fact that I come from Africa be a hindrance.

I love my brownness.

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens.

I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and give them something to respond to and react against.

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

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

I'm all about black folks working together and progressing together.

From a very young age, I felt a spiritual, visceral, instinctual connection with 'black is beautiful.' Just the black experience and wanting to celebrate that. And I didn't know how to articulate that as a young child.

The thing about India is that even if the economic backgrounds are different, the cultural background is the same. Somebody who is working as a tailor will also tie a black thread around his kid's wrist; so will somebody in Bollywood. That's the fun of being Indian.

Customs and traditions followed in North and South India are different. But the underlying sentiments are the same.

There's always some difference between your Latino and African-American communities. But we definitely have more similarities than differences.

People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That's the rhetorical position we occupy.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.