Affected Quote by Gideon Welles

On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This…

— Gideon Welles

I was poor, black, I overcame all those things.

— Mark Robinson

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a…

— Michaela Coel

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and…

— Eminem

I was constantly being sought after for money. And the vitriol that came my way from many who felt threatened by controversial aspects of…

— Ntozake Shange

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

— Jayson Blair

The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school's steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my…

— Ruby Bridges

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

— Roger Ross Williams

I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a…

— Big Sean

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

— Benjamin Carson