Australia Quote by Liz Cambage

I grew up with the White half of my family.

— Jaz Sinclair

We were from a predominantly white area, my dad was black and my mum was white, so that had its complications.

— Jermaine Jenas

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

— Logic

My mother is white. My biological father is black. When my mother was 17, she got pregnant. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at…

— Israel Houghton

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

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself…

— Jenny Zhang

It had never occurred to me that my colour - or lack of it - was an issue for some people, but then I…

— Shari Sebbens

My dad's from Barbados, but I lived with my mum. She brought me up; my uncle took me to the football. I grew up…

— Ashley Cole

I don't think of myself as being colored but of being Australian.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of racism and…

— Hannah Bronfman

I was raised by a woman and I'm the middle child of two sisters who are young Black women.

— Vic Mensa

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin…

— Sarah Jones