Black Quote by George Weinberg

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

— Anonymous

I always assumed I'd marry a black woman.

— Trip Lee

I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I felt like…

— Lori Lightfoot

I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

— Roger Ross Williams

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

— Jai Rodriguez

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

— Don Lemon

When I think of my mother, I can't help but think of the head-spinning ignorance she endured to marry my dad and have me,…

— Cord Jefferson

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

— Logic

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart,…

— Lisa Bonet

It's important for the world to see black women as not just the suffering wife or haggard mother.

— Simone Missick

Our family is mixed. My oldest sister married a black man in 1962, which was way out there then.

— Duff McKagan

My mother is white. My biological father is black. When my mother was 17, she got pregnant. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at…

— Israel Houghton