Alabama Quote by Condoleezza Rice

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

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

— Steven Seagal

I was born in a Negro town.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I grew up in a small segregated steel town 6o miles outside of Cleveland, my parents grew up in the segregated south. As a…

— Lori Lightfoot

I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids.

— Jay Blades

I grew up in an all-white community.

— Gayle King

I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a…

— Ken Howard

My mother is white. My biological father is black. When my mother was 17, she got pregnant. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at…

— Israel Houghton

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve come, because…

— Kathryn Stockett

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.

— Keri Hilson

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

— Anonymous