Olusegun Obasanjo 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.

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.

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.

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'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.

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.

My whole life is an interracial relationship! It's inescapable. I am who I am.

I'm a member of a very complex and richly valued race.

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

I'm glad my son doesn't have to be labeled black or Samoan or mixed. He has instead been labeled as the best.

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

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

I'm proud to be white. I don't have anything against my color. But I don't think color matters, either. Just like I feel it doesn't matter that I'm a white dude doin' black music.

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.

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

I am a Nubian.

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

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

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

There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar!

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.'

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

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.

We call each other colored people, black people, but not negro…