Wentworth Miller Quotes

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!

I still enjoy a lot of support from the black community.

When you're biracial, people sort of make you gray - you're not black, you're not white, you're sort of gray; you're 'other.' And I'm fortunate to have parents that were strong enough to say, 'You're not 'other.' You're special.'

I want to be known for what I am, black and white, because I'm proud of both.

I don't need to tell myself that I'm black or that I'm proud of being black. I just am, and it just doesn't matter.

I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

I've never been one to carry race on my sleeve, and I've never been one to really use my race.

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

Learn to love being black.

Our goal—a Racial Nation of and by ourselves—nothing less.

Racial harmony does not mean racial mixing.

There can be no racial animosity, because there are no races.

Some of my best friends are white.

I just hope that when black people look at me, they don't see someone superhuman. They see themselves.