Angela Rye Quotes

I'm a black American, and I'm proud to represent who and where I'm from - unapologetically. There's no shame in my game.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

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

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

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

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

I'm a black man from the South. I like my food!

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

African-Americans have a lot to teach the world.

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

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

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.

I love being black.

Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.

I'm not going to be one of those people who says, 'I'm a showrunner; I'm not a black showrunner.' I'm black when I go to sleep. I'm black when I wake up, period. It doesn't affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

Black is beautiful.

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

To be young, gifted and black!

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.

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.

I am a Nubian.

I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.