Aisha Tyler Quotes

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

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

I definitely am not white.

I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.

I've always considered myself a person of color.

Nothing about being white describes who I am.

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

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.

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

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.

Regardless of what I've ever done or will ever do, I'll always be black.

I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'

Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does.

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

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'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.

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

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

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 look like a white woman. I look Somali.

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