Huda Kattan Quotes

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

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

The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have strange eyebrows.

Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.

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

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

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

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

My dad has blond hair, my grandmother has blue eyes. My daughter has blue eyes and blond hair. So it is pretty funny to me that I'm so heavily identified as an Asian person.

It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.

My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.

My eyes will never be blue; my bone structure will never allow for you to mistake me for a Scandinavian model.

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

My children don't look Hispanic.

In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

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

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

I look like I'm Chinese or Thai or Japanese - very different.