Aware Quote by Sarah Jones

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself…

— Jenny Zhang

I come from a multicultural family.

— Sarah Jones

I view myself as a multicultural woman who happens to be black.

— Wendy Williams

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

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 come from a community that has a lot of white kids, and I notice how, a lot of times, they don't understand our…

— Marley Dias

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so…

— Annie Ilonzeh

People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had an authentic…

— Rachel Dolezal

I grew up thinking I was inferior to white-skinned people. And as a child if you are conditioned like this, it becomes a part…

— Masaba Gupta

I grew up basically in a predominantly, you know, white community and I was mixed but as a kid you don't know that. So…

— Redfoo

I was raised by mum who's white and she raised me amazingly, but I was never in touch with my black side growing up…

— Liz Cambage

I really didn't even realize I was a hybrid or that my parents were interracial until I was much older.

— Lindsey Morgan