Shemar Moore Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The only thing Oriental about me, is my face.

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

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

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

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.

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

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.

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.

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

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.

I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant. I am a Russian American. But until recently I haven't focused so much on those parts of my identity. I've always thought of myself simply as a normal, unhyphenated American.

I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.

I definitely am not white.

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