I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
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