Shelby Steele Quotes

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Don't make the mistake, America, of voting for Barack Obama who, by the way, does not come out of the American black experience and everything white Americans feel guilty about. He's a Hawaiian born in 1961.

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.

Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.

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

As much as I'd love to believe that we are 'post-racial' - an idea that really gained traction after the election of Barack Obama in 2008 - I can never escape the fact that in the world I am perceived as a 'black man' and, in certain parts of the world, as a 'black gay man.'

I think, for a while, there was a kind of debate about whether you could bring back Negro and reclaim it, and then it was black versus African American; now I have noticed in conversation that black people will use all three terms depending on context. I don't advocate one term.

My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.

You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.

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

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

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

Shakespeare must be a black girl.

I actually like Hillary Clinton. I like Barack Obama.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

I am a tropical black man.

A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.