Correct Quote by Natasha Trethewey

Never have I once identified myself as white.

— Shaun King

I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it's because you're forced to have a certain humility if you're not an affluent…

— Nish Kumar

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there…

— Maya Lin

I was always told that I acted too white. I was always told that I was going to date a white guy - which,…

— Jessica Williams

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

— Frank Zappa

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

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second…

— Thomas Sowell

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

Well, I think that I have a complicated relationship with whiteness because oftentimes, I pass as white, and I recognize that. I would be…

— Rostam Batmanglij

I honestly realized that my dad was white when someone told me in middle school. They're like, 'Oh your dad's white?' I'm like, 'Oh,…

— Tamera Mowry

Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If…

— Thomas Sowell

Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can…

— Jordan Peele