Black Quote by Michaela Coel

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

— Larry Holmes

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

— Tina Turner

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

— Benjamin Carson

I was born a poor black child.

— Al Gore

Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my skin to…

— Michaela Coel

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So…

— Jess Row

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

— Jaye Davidson

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life…

— Carl Bernstein

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

— Nora Ephron

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

— Roger Ross Williams

Being black has a lot to do with my...

— Willi Smith

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room…

— Brian Tyree Henry