Being Quote by Maya Soetoro-Ng

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

— Rosa Parks

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

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

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst…

— Lena Horne

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

— Robert Griffin III

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

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 grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

— Michaela Coel

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

— Jayson Blair