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Growing up in a school that was majority white, my understanding of the world was that I was different but that differences shouldn't be…

— Alicia Garza

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up…

— Katherine Dunham

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what…

— Ruby Bridges

I was lucky to grow up in a culturally diverse area knowing a lot of different people from all different walks of life.

— Anjelah Johnson

I feel very fortunate that I was raised in a multicultural family, and it came through food.

— Marcus Samuelsson

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

Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.

— Sue Bird

Most of my friends, growing up, were upper-middle-class white kids, so it was a different reality at home both culturally and linguistically. It created…

— Kelela

When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs…

— St. Lucia

Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.

— Ed Schultz

I was the only mixed-race girl in my school, but for me, that was a positive thing; it made me unique. If it wasn't…

— Alesha Dixon

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a…

— Ed Kowalczyk