Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

There can be no racial animosity, because there are no races.

When you're biracial, people sort of make you gray - you're not black, you're not white, you're sort of gray; you're 'other.' And I'm fortunate to have parents that were strong enough to say, 'You're not 'other.' You're special.'

If God wanted be to be black, I'd be black; if he wanted me to be white, I'd be white, so I guess He chose for me to be both and original. That's the way I'm supposed to be.

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.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

I can tell you that anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body.

I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority.

I just hope that when black people look at me, they don't see someone superhuman. They see themselves.

I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.

I want to live to help my race.

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.

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

I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.

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

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

Some of my best friends are white.

I love black people, I love white people, I love yellow people.

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

I'm happy with being white. I'm fine with being white. I feel zero shame whatsoever in being white.

Throughout my whole time in wrestling on the road, going out and being around some of the whitest people in the world, I've never had any problems with anybody. It was never black or white. Booker T was just a wrestler. I did that by design.