Children Quote by Angela Rye

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This…

— Jessica Williams

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better…

— Jerry Leiber

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that…

— Steven Biko

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

— Ncuti Gatwa

Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a…

— Halle Berry

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I…

— Rachel Dolezal

Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could imagine, this…

— Shaun King

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place…

— Octavia Butler

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we…

— Jerry Leiber

Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be…

— Mabel