Experience Quote by Myha'la

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

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

— Sue Bird

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

Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in school. What…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

A lot of people decide, if you're mixed, you're black. And so they try to force you to choose a culture.

— Kendrick Sampson

Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could imagine, this…

— Shaun King

I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase…

— Natasha Trethewey

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I…

— Sterling K. Brown

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to…

— Lee Daniels

Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm black, they…

— Logic

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