Black Quote by Nicholas Kristof

When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we…

— Tyne Daly

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around…

— Natasha Trethewey

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

I was born a poor black child.

— Al Gore

My mother is white. My biological father is black. When my mother was 17, she got pregnant. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at…

— Israel Houghton

In the first place, an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color is pronounced illegal. I am…

— Lydia M. Child

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

— Jaye Davidson

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve come, because…

— Kathryn Stockett

My dad is Chinese, and my mom is a white American, and they married only ten years after the United States Supreme Court ruled…

— Marjorie Liu

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

— Logic

“This “disorganized family life” in Black neighborhoods was caused by racial discrimination, poverty, cultural pathology, and the introduction of the matriarchal Black family during…

— Ibram X. Kendi