Kanye West Quotes

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.

There is no one American beauty or just one beautiful color in the pantheon, especially in regards to black people - there is no better color.

I've never bothered about my color.

I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

It is impossible to say with any certainty to which human race we belong. We all differ visibly in the color of our skin.

Colored people come in all colors.

I look like a melanin version of Chris Hayes.

People have black skin, people have brown skin. I have both.

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

You can't get much whiter than me.

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.

Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.

I've always called myself a different shade of Brown.

My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.