Always Quote by Cheech Marin

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

— Meagan Good

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood…

— Jacqueline Woodson

All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted.…

— Vanilla Ice

I grew up in an all-white community.

— Gayle King

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

— Dawn Staley

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been…

— Roy Choi

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

— Courtney A. Kemp

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

When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and…

— Halle Berry

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the…

— Jack White

I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white…

— America Ferrera

I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my country, the dark skin…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu