America Quote by Liz Cambage

In the States is when I learnt about racism and I started to learn and embrace who I was.

— Liz Cambage

You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.

— Angelique Kidjo

My skin was the border between the world and me.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border…

— Dinaw Mengestu

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because…

— Rosa Parks

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

— Constance Baker Motley

Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different.

— Kelvin Sampson

The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of…

— Sunny Jain

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in…

— Paul Robeson

I really didn't even realize I was a hybrid or that my parents were interracial until I was much older.

— Lindsey Morgan

Every year, my family and I would go visit my mom's family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we…

— Marisol Nichols

I don't remember my skin changing, but I do recall feeling deeply loved by my family.

— Winnie Harlow