Black Quote by Killer Mike

The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.

— bell hooks

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I…

— Cory Booker

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

— Rob Morgan

Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that…

— George C. Wolfe

My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice…

— Jenny Zhang

I lived in a low-income Black community, grew up with kids on welfare and with Black folks driving Cadillacs, going to private schools and…

— 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

I grew up having great awareness of who I was in regards to racial identity and socio-economic status. This caused me great frustration until…

— Sho Baraka

No one ever indoctrinated me.

— Indira Gandhi

I was born a poor black child.

— Al Gore

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 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