Born Quote by Michaela DePrince

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

I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.

— Darius Rucker

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is…

— Toyin Odutola

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

— Kwame Nkrumah

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

I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.

— Ayanna Pressley

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

— Constance Baker Motley

I was born a poor black child.

— Al Gore

I was born in a Negro town.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be…

— Mabel

I identify as African American. I identify as Black. Black is something I share with other descendants of Africa, African-American is something I share…

— Jamilah Lemieux

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

— Lena Horne