Baby Quote by Jess Row

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 never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things…

— Mose Allison

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a…

— Michaela Coel

All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white…

— Jimmy Carter

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced…

— Roy Ayers

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

— David Sanborn

I grew up in a mixed-race family in Bristol. My cousin was this white guy who was interested in Parliament, Marc Bolan, Bowie. His…

— Tricky

Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find…

— Dick Clark

I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids.

— Jay Blades

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in…

— Harold Nicholas

I never quite lived up to the image of the black man as I saw it growing up. I was never listening to the…

— Justin Simien

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became…

— Eminem