Kelly Rowland Quotes

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

I just hope that when black people look at me, they don't see someone superhuman. They see themselves.

Well who's black and what is a black person?

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.

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.

I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that this person is black. And some days, this character wakes up and feels black, and some days, she doesn't. That is, for me, a fully black experience.

I love my brownness.

I'm looking for projects where race is not an issue.

Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness.

I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

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

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.

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

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

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

One must learn how to be black in America.

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.