About Quote by Jerry Leiber

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I…

— Rachel Dolezal

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place…

— Octavia Butler

Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the feeling of…

— Rza

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black…

— Concha Buika

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things…

— Sam Phillips

Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could imagine, this…

— Shaun King

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we…

— Jerry Leiber

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This…

— Jessica Williams

I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a…

— Angela Rye

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking…

— Walter Dean Myers

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 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