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Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

— James Weldon Johnson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

— Eddie Marsan

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

— Verne Troyer

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

— Cory Booker

To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go off to college only to abandon their beliefs in order to fit in or be accepted.

— Marshall Allman

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

— Ty Dolla Sign

I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.

— John Abercrombie

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

— Mandy Patinkin

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.

— Janis Ian

The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island.

— Jim Brown

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn't ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.

— Meghan Markle