Sentence examples for not black enough for from inspiring English sources

"You're not black enough for them.

I'm only now coming to a place Joan Armatrading arrived at in 1979, with her lyric from the song "How Cruel": "I heard somebody say her black was way too black... and someone answer she's not black enough for me".

"Growing up, kids would always say to me: 'You're not black enough for this.' Or: 'You have black in you, so you can't be into this.' I was called an abomination as a kid, so that registered real quick".

A nagging lyrical firefight rages across his new album, Camp – a title guaranteed to raise hackles – with Glover/Gambino being too black for the white kids he went to school with ("I hate it there, they make fun of my clothes and wanna touch my hair"), but not black enough for hip-hop, "Rap is for real blacks," a voice declares at one point.

Is the light-skinned model not black enough for black girl magic?

In the months before the Senate primary, there was whispering that he wasn't "black enough" for some blacks.

The first chain my hands and apologize, "History"; the next said I wasn't black enough for their pride..

Hendrix didn't fit because he wasn't black enough for Harlem, nor white enough for Greenwich Village.

He remembers Santa Jerome, who wasn't "black enough" for some African-American parents, and Santa Doug, who spat on the children.

In "The Land of Beulah," a character's boyfriend breaks up with her because she isn't black enough for him.

"I was told I wasn't black enough for certain jobs, because of the way I speak and carry myself and because I was raised in Europe.