Malcolm X Quotes

I am a Nubian.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn't identify as that before I came here. People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.

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

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.

In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

You have to want to be Chicano to be Chicano.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.

It had never occurred to me that my colour - or lack of it - was an issue for some people, but then I moved to Sydney, and apparently it was. People look at me and don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. Thankfully, my mother raised me well in knowing where I come from and who I am, and I'm proud of that.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Civilizations are a matter of the mind.

Afro-American

Southern Baptists are VERY, VERY Southern, and black Baptists are VERY, VERY black

Art is the permanence of a civilization.