African american Quote by Darius Rucker

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that…

— George C. Wolfe

I grew up in a rough area, went to an all-black school, public school.

— DeMarcus Cousins

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

— Jay Blades

I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and…

— Amy Sherald

My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot…

— Ryan Coogler

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

— Robert Griffin III

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as…

— Halle Berry

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

— Brother Ali

I grew up basically in a predominantly, you know, white community and I was mixed but as a kid you don't know that. So…

— Redfoo

Black people created their own stereotype. Now its hard for me to be a educated young black man without being labeled as 'acting white.'

— Anonymous

I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase…

— Natasha Trethewey