Australia Quote by Liz Cambage

I don't want to be self-mythologizing, but I do feel like, growing up, on TV, there weren't a lot of young Black women who…

— Ayo Edebiri

As a black woman I always felt growing up I had to do above and beyond stuff to be noticed, to feel like I…

— Crystal Dunn

Growing up I thought I might be the only black person in the world.

— Ncuti Gatwa

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

I used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you - you're never not in…

— Willie Cauley-Stein

I definitely felt growing up that I wasn't seen as the same as anyone around me because no one around me looked like me.…

— Ncuti Gatwa

As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting…

— John Piper

When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and…

— Halle Berry

Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could imagine, this…

— Shaun King

I wasn't your normal plus-size girl who would dress in all black and hide in the shadows. I was very out there. But I…

— Ashley Nell Tipton

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

— Grace Jones

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