Black Quote by Al Gore

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

— Roger Ross Williams

I was born black and female.

— Lorraine Hansberry

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

— Larry Holmes

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a…

— Michaela Coel

I was poor, black, I overcame all those things.

— Mark Robinson

I was born in a Negro town.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now…

— Gordon Parks

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying…

— Tyler Perry

I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.

— Charles Barkley

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Growing up I thought I might be the only black person in the world.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams