1970s Quote by Shiva Ayyadurai

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not…

— Isabel Sanford

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as…

— Halle Berry

I think, as a kid, turning on the television and seeing that everyone seemed to be wealthy and white made me feel like an…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And…

— Viola Davis

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white…

— Oprah Winfrey

But in my life, the vast majority of people that have really afforded me the opportunity to succeed were white folks.

— Tim Scott

I grew up in a very white middle-class area, and obviously I'm not that.

— Griff

I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

— Queen Latifah

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life,…

— Coretta Scott King

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father…

— Marianne Williamson

I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have…

— Helen Mirren

I wanted to prove I wasn't that person everyone wanted to stereotype me. You can slag me off, I talk about my upbringing now…

— Angela Rayner