Black Quote by Melissa Harris-Perry

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

— Anonymous

People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had an authentic…

— Rachel Dolezal

Most black families have roots, whether Christian, Muslim or other religions, and that journey is unique for each individual.

— Omar Epps

“An unwillingness to associate with blacks has long been considered a sign of lower-class closed-mindedness, but a 2006 study by Michael Emerson and David…

— Jared Taylor

My parents were 30 years older than I was, and my parents had my brother and I ten years apart. My parents grew up…

— Courtney A. Kemp

No white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

— Henry Louis Gates

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

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

My father is black - was black. My mother is white.

— Stromae

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

You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all…

— Lorraine Bracco

I grew up with white parents, and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood