Crystal Dunn Quotes

I'm used to being the only black guy. I've seriously walked onstage, looked out in the audience, 15,000 people - and I'm the only one in the place. It's no big deal. My whole career's been like that.

I'm not a token black guy.

When I was growing up, I always felt a bit like I didn't quite fit in, a feeling that perhaps still lingers in the background to this very day. I was the small brown girl in the big white suburb.

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

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

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

I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.

Unfortunately, I don't know many black people.

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

As a black person, I'm used to going to places in which I might be the only black person that shows up there. This experience has an effect on the way you see yourself in the world and what it means to be black in the world.

When I signed for Spurs, I was the only black player in the team.

If we could create higher education from scratch, would we have organizations that divide people by race, class and gender at institutions that are supposed to be encouraging diversity? No!

I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.

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

Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?

I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks.

I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.

I was one of three kids of colour in our school. There was a young black brother and sister, and me. So we stood out.

I got bullied so much growing up for being a different color in a majority white school.

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

When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor. In some places, you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive.

I definitely am not white.

My concerns have always been to do the best job I can. But I am conscious that I'm a black manager and I am conscious that there is a profile that goes with that.

I don't know how often white people look around and think, 'Wow, there's really a lot of white people here; we should fix that.' But I know black people often look around and think, 'Wow, I'm the only one here - why?'

My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.