Art Quote by Cliff Curtis

There's a lot of racism around. I am always puzzled when people have that attitude. I went to a place where people were nice…

— Riddick Bowe

I had a lot of racism growing up where I grew up. Bullied at school. It definitely encouraged me. It's like battle wounds -…

— Lewis Hamilton

I was just lucky enough to grow up around the arts and have an open-minded family, to an extent.

— Sophie Thatcher

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids.…

— David Oyelowo

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

— Maajid Nawaz

In my school, racism was ubiquitous and unrelenting, and not just from the pupils. For a year I was terrorised by one of my…

— David Olusoga

I went to a predominantly white secondary school and experienced a lot of hate and racism.

— Jay Blades

I experienced racism in different settings: I was followed in stores, in cars. The way you experience racism depends on how you deal with…

— Perry Bellegarde

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.

— Steve Kazee

I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New York when…

— Marc Jacobs

Being a kid with black skin in South Central Los Angeles, in a part of the world where opportunity didn't necessarily knock every day,…

— Kehinde Wiley

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You…

— Peter Capaldi