Bizarre Quote by Lenny Henry

I was never a white guy pretending to be black. Not once, ever, did it occur to me that I was being phony or…

— Shaun King

I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African, but because of my light eyes I did not get away with…

— Princess Michael of Kent

I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has…

— Joe Morton

I consciously learned and performed my race like a teacher's pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I was the first black man on television.

— Scatman Crothers

Black people created their own stereotype. Now its hard for me to be a educated young black man without being labeled as 'acting white.'

— Anonymous

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we…

— Jerry Leiber

I was a Black man before I was a basketball player.

— Jerami Grant

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was…

— Issa Rae

Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be…

— Mabel

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

— Grace Jones

I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.

— Katrina Adams