Black person Quote by Courtney A. Kemp

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

— Condoleezza Rice

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

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

— Keri Hilson

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

— Ursula Burns

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

— Steven Seagal

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 grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb…

— Daryl Hall

I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

— Tucker Max

I grew up in small-town America, black, disadvantaged.

— Cris Carter

I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially…

— Karan Mahajan

When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white…

— Angie Thomas

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