Awareness Quote by Lorraine Hansberry

Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that…

— George C. Wolfe

Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in school. What…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

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

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

— Anonymous

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my…

— Laverne Cox

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

“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them…

— Timothy B. Tyson

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

— Lisa Bonet

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

“When I meet cases, as I frequently do, of such unfortunate and misguided young men as I have described, I cannot but feel the…

— Booker T. Washington

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for…

— Phil Robertson