Black people Quote by Lenny Henry

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

— Jay Blades

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public…

— Stokely Carmichael

The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of racism, it…

— David Olusoga

People often expect that I should know a lot of things because I'm black. I don't really explain it to people, but it's like,…

— Keiynan Lonsdale

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

— Tina Turner

Growing up in a school that was majority white, my understanding of the world was that I was different but that differences shouldn't be…

— Alicia Garza

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They'd say, 'When you walk into a room and…

— Will Packer

The black presence in our British history has sometimes wilfully, sometimes neglectfully, been whitewashed out of our national tale. This is not only deeply…

— Paterson Joseph

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.

— Didier Drogba

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed,…

— Carmen Ejogo

We have fixed ideas of Tudor Britain, Victorian and Edwardian Britain as entirely white. But an awful lot of what we know as history…

— Paterson Joseph