Margo Jefferson Quotes

We call each other colored people, black people, but not negro…

Guess what, Beyonce? White people like your music, too. White people buy your songs on iTunes, memorize your lyrics, and admire your talent and beauty. Little white girls wanna be like you just as little black girls do, but instead of that, you'd rather perpetuate the great battle of the races.

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

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.

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 am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

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

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

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

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

If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would suggest they try to limit that support to matters of policy and not perspectives on race.

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

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

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.

Learn to love being black.

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

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!

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

'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black people.' But if I'm talking about a person, I'm going to say 'a Negro,' because I was taught to say that, and I don't see any reason to change it. I don't think that gives pride or anything else. I don't think you get pride by calling yourself this or that.

Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.

Either we want to have segregation or integration. And if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black.

The music I like or the football teams I like or the food I eat has nothing to do with me being black.

Our Luke Cage is a black hero, not a hero who happens to be black.