racial self-identification Quotes

I identify as black.

I never said I wasn’t Black… I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America.

They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!

I man don't come red, I come Black

I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.

I view myself as a multicultural woman who happens to be black.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial but just as black.

I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're focused on what's inside your books, and that kind of term is generally used on the outside, by the critical establishment.