Any Quote by Octavia E. Butler

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only…

— Jackie Robinson

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

— David Bowie

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

I would rather have lived.. having had the courage to jump into the unknown than not...

— Melchor Lim

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

— Edgar Degas

When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were…

— Ed Smith

Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to…

— Ricky Whittle

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking…

— Walter Dean Myers

I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was…

— William Jackson

I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I…

— Michael Jai White

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I…

— Rachel Dolezal