Accents Quote by Grace Jones

I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. I was the only black girl in my grade. And I was just, like, really dorky. Like, I wasn't cool.

— Phoebe Robinson

I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing…

— Junot Diaz

I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids.

— Jay Blades

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was.…

— Daley Thompson

My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy…

— Stuart Hall

I was born black and female.

— Lorraine Hansberry

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I played on many a team where I was the only black girl.

— Crystal Dunn

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history…

— Chris Rock

I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood. My high school and my junior high school were both predominantly black.

— Dawn Staley

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as…

— Halle Berry