Fifteen years Quote by Coretta Scott King

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

I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where…

— Nate Powell

Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I…

— Maurice Sendak

When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it…

— Erin O'Connor

I saw my hometown burning that day.

— Rodney King

So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that's when my mother transferred…

— Maya Wiley

It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire,…

— John Fante

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

— Lisa Bonet

My mom experienced racism. She was harassed by the KKK several times. And I experienced racism myself, growing up. In New Jersey, we had…

— Aldis Hodge

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

— Maajid Nawaz

My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to deal with a lot more…

— Mariah Carey

On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This…

— Gideon Welles