Answer:
I am covered in quills for protection. What am I?
I'm carried by mad animals. What am I?
People take me on walks and I run and have fun. What am I?
I have black skin but I look white, What am I?
From that which comes within itself, It builds its table on my shelf.
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.