Amanda Seales Quotes

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

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

I am a Nubian.

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

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.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

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.

Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish.

While I might not have a specific experience that is fully American, there is still a knowledge, something that I logically understand as a black woman and a black woman who is existing in America and a black woman who is in the diaspora that are just known quantities that I think anyone can relate to who is black.

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.

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

We are African in origin and American in birth.

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother's black. I'm black because I grew up in a family of all black people. I knew I was black because I grew up in an all-white neighborhood. And my parents, as part of their protective mechanisms that they were going to give to us, made it very clear what we were.

I'm an African American.