Black Quote by Franchesca Ramsey

Some black people who have not heard me interviewed or read my book jump to conclusions and prejudge me... I've been called Uncle Tom.…

— Daryl Davis

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and…

— Anonymous

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

So I was really excited when I came to America about meeting black people. But it was a huge culture shock, because I was…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted.…

— Vanilla Ice

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.

— Steven Caple Jr

For me, be it 'Arth' or 'Libaas' or 'Masoom,' there has always been space to break stereotypes or social constructs and perform beyond the…

— Shabana Azmi

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was…

— Issa Rae

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started…

— Sadiq Khan

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

— Natasha Trethewey

In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids,…

— Courtney A. Kemp

I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas…

— Karan Mahajan