Hard Quote by Jon Hamm

I think, as a kid, turning on the television and seeing that everyone seemed to be wealthy and white made me feel like an…

— Jacqueline Woodson

But in my life, the vast majority of people that have really afforded me the opportunity to succeed were white folks.

— Tim Scott

In many ways I just did not fit the mold of a 1970s high tech innovator. I was not white, I was not working…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

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

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road…

— Luther Standing Bear

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time…

— Harriet Tubman

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white…

— Oprah Winfrey

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get…

— Rosa Parks

As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this,…

— Octavia E. Butler

I feel that sometimes mankind, as far as White men go, behave as if they were the only thing that exists, without a past…

— Alice Rohrwacher

It wasn't ever easy. Growing up, I was a struggling youth. Being half white and half black in a predominantly white neighborhood in Nebraska,…

— Anthony Smith

I was poor, black, I overcame all those things.

— Mark Robinson