Biracial Quote by Drake

Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the feeling of…

— Rza

I've grown in tremendous ways with enhancing my music, my ability to perform on stage and travel all around to spread bounce music. I've…

— Big Freedia

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

— Tupac Shakur

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border…

— Dinaw Mengestu

My family life and early political life - being exposed to the news constantly, being enrolled in an Afrocentric education program, and doing the…

— Baratunde Thurston

When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life…

— E-40

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm…

— Estelle

I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the funny Chinese…

— Ronny Chieng

I always wanted to do something I knew I could love to wake up and do every day, and rap was just second nature…

— Dave East

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

Coming from where I came from, being a foster youth... like, living in all those different homes... I am glad I had those experiences…

— Tiffany Haddish

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

— Will Smith