“People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!” PeopleBelieveUsedLyingGirlBlackRaisedNativeNative AmericanSomething BetterEccentricTell A Girl Author:Chance the Rapper
“I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.” ImportantBlackCommunityWhiteTaughtLessonsMy FamilyRaisedLife LessonBlack CommunityImportant Life LessonsImportant Life Author:Brother Ali
“The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.” WorldKindLittlesBlackWaterMusicianRaisedChuckBerriesMuddySoulfulHopkinsUltrasHowlin Wolf Author:Ted Nugent
“At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.” PeopleFirstsBookRememberMotherBlackBornWhiteSouthRaisedStartingSouthernBlack And WhiteBorn And RaisedRaised In The South Author:Edward P. Jones
“Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.” StatesSchoolNextBlackNaturalStepsEnvironmentStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolHistoricalRaisedUniversityGoing To CollegeColleges And UniversitiesDelawareAfter High School Author:Michael N. Castle
“I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.” IfsThinkingDoneBlackDrugCookingRaisedGrandmotherSouthernMy GrandmotherCokePancakesSouthern Women Author:Paul Mooney
“Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black man, whose culture he has self-consciously adopted. But he was reared largely by his white grandparents. He lived a kind of racially bipartisan experience, and he will be able to speak a language that resonates with both communities.” MenWorldWayKindTwoSelfAbleCultureSpeakLanguageBlackCommunityWhitePerspectiveRaisedGrandparentAdoptedTwo WaysBipartisan Author:Michael Eric Dyson