About Quote by Issa Rae

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

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

When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and…

— Halle Berry

As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting…

— John Piper

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

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and…

— Anonymous

Black people didn't start coming to see me until 1982. I'd just started doing Delbert, and suddenly my world changed. I started doing black-centred…

— Lenny Henry

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish…

— Janis Ian

I went through a rebellious phase, and was super into doing crazy hair things. I did only wear black for my junior year of…

— Brianna Hildebrand

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

— Grace Jones

Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that…

— George C. Wolfe

I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater or the…

— Ishmael Reed