Black Quote by Dick Gregory

My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid.

— Kenya Barris

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

— Maya Angelou

First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their…

— Medgar Evers

You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all…

— Lorraine Bracco

I'm a black person and when I was growing up I went to a school with no other black people and walked past signs…

— Lenny Henry

When I was young, kids who were more Native American than me would call me 'white boy.' To my white friends, I was 'that…

— Brady Jandreau

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was.…

— Daley Thompson

It's really interesting when I go into a community where they haven't seen me before because I often get, 'I didn't know you were…

— Andrew Gillum

I've been in situations where I was 'black boy white,' or 'white boy black.' People didn't know, "Is he the whitest black person in…

— Kevin michael

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four…

— Big Sean

Know that I have a black child I'd like to have a mixed child. To me they are a sign of harmony of everything…

— Marlon Cortez Stanfield