Black Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

— Meagan Good

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been…

— Roy Choi

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

— Cheech Marin

I grew up basically in a predominantly, you know, white community and I was mixed but as a kid you don't know that. So…

— Redfoo

I grew up in small-town America, black, disadvantaged.

— Cris Carter

Culturally, I and the people I grew up around were very much the same. It was only randomly that I was reminded that I…

— Myha'la

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

— Dawn Staley

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the…

— Jack White

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

When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white…

— Angie Thomas

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I grew up around whites, I grew up around Jews, I grew up around blacks, I grew up around Hispanics. We moved a lot.

— David Choe