Dreams Quote by Jenny Zhang

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

My mother was this White woman from Texas, from a racist town raised to believe in the inferiority of others by her community, not…

— Maya Wiley

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

My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students in Mississippi…

— James Vance

When I think of my mother, I can't help but think of the head-spinning ignorance she endured to marry my dad and have me,…

— Cord Jefferson

I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you.

— Killer Mike

When I was growing up my mother made certain that I was exposed to people of all races and religions who were intelligent, educated,…

— Michaela DePrince

For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King…

— John Hope Bryant

My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try…

— Rosemary Mahoney

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart,…

— Lisa Bonet

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

— Jaye Davidson

Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to…

— Ricky Whittle