America Quote by Janet Mock

As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents…

— Kelly Price

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

Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life.

— Rob Morgan

My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.

— Chirlane McCray

I was born a poor black child.

— Al Gore

I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the places I…

— Lil B

I remember being a young black kid in high school, I didn't think the establishment or the political system was for me. I didn't…

— Jamaal Bowman

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

— Danny Glover

Having grown up in a Black neighborhood, gone to a segregated Black public school that was overcrowded and underfunded, watched my neighbors be displaced…

— Maya Wiley

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

— Jaye Davidson

Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.

— Yance Ford

So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that's when my mother transferred…

— Maya Wiley