Black Quote by Ncuti Gatwa

Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn't see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a…

— Hannah Simone

Being mixed race in Britain in the '80s and '90s, there just weren't loads of people who looked like me.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Nobody looked like me when I was growing up. None of the kids were as big as me, or as serious as me, or…

— India Arie

Black people didn't start coming to see me until 1982. I'd just started doing Delbert, and suddenly my world changed. I started doing black-centred…

— Lenny Henry

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 was an outsider. I looked different, and I felt really voiceless as a kid.

— Sabaa Tahir

Growing up, there was nobody in TV or radio that looked like me - that sounded like me.

— Rosie Jones

I remember distinctly not seeing myself. I didn't see myself in black culture, white culture, mass culture.

— Justin Simien

Culturally, I and the people I grew up around were very much the same. It was only randomly that I was reminded that I…

— Myha'la

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

— Grace Jones

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as…

— Halle Berry

Growing up I thought I might be the only black person in the world.

— Ncuti Gatwa