Saul Williams Quotes

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

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

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

I've never been one to carry race on my sleeve, and I've never been one to really use my race.

Learn to love being black.

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!

Our goal—a Racial Nation of and by ourselves—nothing less.

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

I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

Black is beautiful.

Black people, we are not this monolithic group, you know?

When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.

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.

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

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.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

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.

My grandparents were colored. My parents were Negroes. And now I am Black.

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

Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.

I love being black.

If the idea of separate human races is a mistake to begin with, then monoracial forms of identification are fictitious and counterproductive.