Any Quote by Ed Smith

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not…

— Diane Nash

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

— Don Cornelius

When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs…

— St. Lucia

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

I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six…

— Randall Robinson

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

My mother was this White woman from Texas, from a racist town raised to believe in the inferiority of others by her community, not…

— Maya Wiley

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a…

— Ed Kowalczyk

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

Growing up in a predominantly white area of the predominantly white state of Wisconsin, it was, I'm sad to say, relatively easy for me…

— Joe Thomas

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very…

— Herschel Walker

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up…

— Katherine Dunham