Chance Quote by Viola Davis

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

I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

I know what it's like to be in predominantly white situations in the educational system. My parents are educators, and I went to performing…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

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 was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and…

— Amy Sherald

And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was…

— Rachel True

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get…

— Viola Davis

I was the only mixed-race girl in my school, but for me, that was a positive thing; it made me unique. If it wasn't…

— Alesha Dixon

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish…

— Janis Ian

I went to a predominantly white school, and I was the only black girl. I can remember thinking, 'I don't want to be as…

— Kelly Rowland

Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling…

— Adhir Kalyan