Jessica Williams Quotes

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.

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

One must learn how to be black in America.

Learn to love being black.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.

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.

I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a child and as an adolescent, as it is now that I'm an adult.

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.

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

I don't think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

I'm an African American.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.

I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.

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

I am proud to be black man.

I feel good being a black woman; I've always felt good.

As a black person, I'm used to going to places in which I might be the only black person that shows up there. This experience has an effect on the way you see yourself in the world and what it means to be black in the world.

Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being black is something that I should be proud of because we have so many black people who have accomplished so many amazing things in the world.

Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.

I identify as black.

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

Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.

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.