Always Quote by Astrid Kirchherr

I definitely felt growing up that I wasn't seen as the same as anyone around me because no one around me looked like me.…

— Ncuti Gatwa

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I…

— Sidney Poitier

Being mixed race in Britain in the '80s and '90s, there just weren't loads of people who looked like me.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was…

— Johnny Cash

I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I thought it was quite…

— Romy Madley Croft

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're…

— Ricardo Montalban

I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black, you're dark-skinned,…

— Rapsody

Culturally, I and the people I grew up around were very much the same. It was only randomly that I was reminded that I…

— Myha'la

I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.

— Katrina Adams

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

— Neneh Cherry

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

— Zora Neale Hurston

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

— Antony Gormley