Quote by Willie Parker

I remember when we were called 'colored,' and Dr. King would always tell young people not to get upset at what people called you.…

— Jesse White

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

— Henry Louis Gates

I was born black and female.

— Lorraine Hansberry

I have been told for most of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that…

— Shaun King

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was…

— George Zimmerman

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

My father is black - was black. My mother is white.

— Stromae

“It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak…

— Steven J. Carroll

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

The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of…

— Laurence Housman

My mother is white. My biological father is black. When my mother was 17, she got pregnant. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at…

— Israel Houghton

My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work…

— Misha Glenny