Black Quote by Thomas Sowell

It's really interesting when I go into a community where they haven't seen me before because I often get, 'I didn't know you were…

— Andrew Gillum

My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high school was…

— Ayesha Curry

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

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

— Clarence Thomas

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started…

— Sadiq Khan

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

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

My father is German; my mother is African-American. Growing up, I visited my grandparents in Berlin a lot. I would not see any other…

— Zazie Beetz

Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their…

— Ryan Giggs

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were…

— Mariah Carey

I honestly realized that my dad was white when someone told me in middle school. They're like, 'Oh your dad's white?' I'm like, 'Oh,…

— Tamera Mowry

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