Alabama Quote by Joe Frazier

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

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

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

— Frederick Douglass

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and…

— Eminem

My parents took me to the first March on Washington, the first big march for civil rights, in '63. So I was raised in…

— Marky Ramone

I grew up in an all-white community.

— Gayle King

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after…

— Alice Walker

I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.

— Darius Rucker

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

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

— Richard Pryor

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

— Rob Morgan

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American.…

— Harry Belafonte