Black people Quote by Marley Dias

I'm the blackest member of my family. You know, these mixed families produce children of all colors, and in Jamaica, the question of exactly…

— Stuart Hall

My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy…

— Stuart Hall

My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly…

— Roxane Gay

My dad is black and my mom is white. It was not in vogue to be an interracial couple in the 1970s in South…

— Will Hurd

My family were from Jamaica.

— Diane Abbott

I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I…

— Marlon James

I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure…

— Damian Marley

A lot of people don't know that my father is black

— Ryan Giggs

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

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

— Jermaine Jenas

My dad came from Trinidad to Jamaica when he was 19. He had to go to Jamaica to join the British regiment, where it…

— John Barnes