Black Quote by Sidney Poitier

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

— Sidney Poitier

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

— Don Cornelius

Most of my experience with racism comes from living in the South.

— JPEGMAFIA

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated. If I went…

— Don Cornelius

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as…

— Dave Matthews

Every time I was off school, I was in Carolina with my cousins. So it was a big influence on me. I actually experienced…

— John David Washington

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

— Sidney Poitier

I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.

— DeAndre Hopkins

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to…

— Jesmyn Ward

I grew up in a small segregated steel town 6o miles outside of Cleveland, my parents grew up in the segregated south. As a…

— Lori Lightfoot

I went to a predominantly white secondary school and experienced a lot of hate and racism.

— Jay Blades

Racism was a big part of our community. I'm not going to revisit history, and I'm not going to call out those communities, but…

— Kelvin Sampson