Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes

I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.

That doll looks more like a black man than me.

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

I definitely am not white.

When I was growing up in Newcastle, there was one other Indian girl, and we got confused for each other constantly.

I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness.

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

I was made fun of in the Midwest - I was the only Asian in my graduating class of 200. Fortunately, I found my niche, and it was fine. But I wanted to be so white, you wouldn't believe it. I was like, 'I want to be white; I don't want to be this anymore.' But now I embrace it.

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused on whiteness because you wouldn't have blackness if you didn't have whiteness.

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

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was like to be different, to always want to fit in and never feel like you ever could.

Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.