Black Quote by Cecily McMillan

I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood. My high school and my junior high school were both predominantly black.

— Dawn Staley

Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden,…

— Courtney B. Vance

When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be an all-white…

— Prodigy

If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

— Barack Obama

“This is a historically black community,” said Lynn Hendy, president of the property owners association. “I’d like it to stay that way.”127”

— Jared Taylor

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

— Gene Weingarten

I grew up in Oakland and for a long time I was the only white kid in school. Then I moved to the suburbs…

— Ryan Fleck

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

— Kym Whitley

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky

I grew up in an all-white community.

— Gayle King

I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was…

— Toni Morrison

Especially in black communities, we've been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It's crazy. It…

— Ed Reed