Being Quote by Ntozake Shange

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

— Gideon Welles

I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing 'Upstream Color' where I fell so hard for what it was becoming…

— Shane Carruth

I have been attacked and mistreated for my skin colour since I was a child.

— Daryl Davis

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

— Toni Morrison

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My…

— Barack Obama

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

— Michaela Angela Davis

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

— Ntozake Shange

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

— Maajid Nawaz

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

— Bert Williams

It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced…

— Marley Dias

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of…

— Lynn Nottage

Sometimes I felt I was being treated differently to my bandmates because of the colour of my skin.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock