Afraid Quote by Harriet Tubman

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself…

— Jenny Zhang

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I…

— Rachel Dolezal

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

— Kevin Eubanks

One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white…

— Josephine Baker

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of…

— June Jordan

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for…

— Phil Robertson

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst…

— Lena Horne

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold…

— Susan Rice

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

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

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright