Always Quote by Shaun King

I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African, but because of my light eyes I did not get away with…

— Princess Michael of Kent

Never have I once identified myself as white.

— Shaun King

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was.…

— Daley Thompson

Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be…

— Mabel

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

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

— Lenny Henry

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

Growing up black, you are lied to and told to act in a way that isn't who you are.

— Rob Morgan

I don't want to be self-mythologizing, but I do feel like, growing up, on TV, there weren't a lot of young Black women who…

— Ayo Edebiri

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst…

— Lena Horne

Have I had experiences by other people identifying me as black and behaving towards me as black? Yes. Just for as long as maybe…

— Rachel Dolezal

Black people created their own stereotype. Now its hard for me to be a educated young black man without being labeled as 'acting white.'

— Anonymous