Art Quote by Ishmael Reed

I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies,…

— Zoe Kravitz

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

Many people early on actually thought I was a black performer!

— B. J. Thomas

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made…

— Cicely Tyson

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else,…

— Samuel R. Delany

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the…

— Viola Davis

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And…

— Viola Davis

Within the black community, I'm definitely a neighborhood celebrity.

— Dante Basco

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I…

— Charlemagne Palestine

Growing up black, you are lied to and told to act in a way that isn't who you are.

— Rob Morgan

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

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