Cree Summer

I started school in the 4th grade and it was a real drag.

— Cree Summer

If anybody knows how to be friends, it's black women. We have been enslaved and had to care for each other and…

— Cree Summer

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

— Cree Summer

I guess when you come from a supportive family they always expect the best of you.

— Cree Summer

My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.

— Cree Summer

With acting it was never a real passion or inspiration of mine.

— Cree Summer

Usually cartoon characters stay a certain age; that's part of their appeal. Usually they don't grow up.

— Cree Summer

I've always been proud to be different, I've always stood out like a sore thumb and I always have not given a…

— Cree Summer

I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I…

— Cree Summer

I always wanted to be a rock star.

— Cree Summer

I was in the 4th grade, and one day I didn't want to be in class. My father had just gotten a…

— Cree Summer

I don't know a single black girl who's carefree because it ain't easy being a girl of color, period. God, I wish…

— Cree Summer

I was never plunked in front of an idiot box because my parents had other things to do.

— Cree Summer

We need our HBCUs. The youth need our HBCUs. The elders need our HBCUs.

— Cree Summer

I've been singing since I was young.

— Cree Summer