Sonny Bill Williams Quotes

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

The majority of my blood is Asian.

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

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?'

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

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

I'm not white, I'm not black.

In my family, only my brother has a similar skin color. But in Senegal, the color is common.

My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.

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

I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

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

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.

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

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

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'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

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

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

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.

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

Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish.

I always felt different and it was because I was Middle Eastern. Where most people were very fair, light-skinned, and had blue eyes, I was hairy with dark hair and dark skin.