Jenny Han Quotes

I know I'm a black actor, but really, I'm an actor who happens to be black.

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 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.

I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

Black people, we are not this monolithic group, you know?

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

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

I am definitely a person of color.

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.

It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

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 am a black woman, and of course, that's who I'm going to be playing, but I'm also biracial, and that's a different side of the experience.

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

Well who's black and what is a black person?

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.

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

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

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

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

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