Dan O'Brien Quotes

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

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

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

I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

I am not an African. I am an American.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

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

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

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 don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

I definitely am not white.

I feel more Asian than anything.

I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.

I never considered myself as part of a biracial family - we're just a family - but my parents are white, and my brother is Asian.

My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

I'm black. I'm Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

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.