Eartha Kitt Quotes

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

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.

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 am African-American, and I am a proud African-American. I just don't like to put myself in a box and say, 'I'm an African-American actress.' I am an American actress, and I can do any kind of role.

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

If you think about 'Person of Interest' with Taraji P. Henson or 'Scandal' with Kerry Washington - any of those black women could have been any race; they just happen to be black. And those are the characters that I'm more attracted to. It's not so much about separation of race, but really, more uniting us.

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I am myself of a mixed background.

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

I am definitely a person of color.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.

The challenge facing America in the next century will be the shaping, at long last, of a truly common public culture, one responsive to the long silenced cultures of color.

We don’t often take advantage of our American diversity, so why are we celebrating it so much.

Not being white has never prevented me from enjoying Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. These are heroes of mine.

My whole life is an interracial relationship! It's inescapable. I am who I am.

It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

I'm proud to be biracial, and there's a lot of people that say things like, 'I don't see color,' and I completely understand that, but I think different is beautiful, but I think our difference shouldn't separate us, and for me in this era, in this time, in everything that we're going through, my whole thing is just about unity, man.

Throughout my career in public service, the residents I have had the privilege of fighting for have embraced who I am, especially my Palestinian roots. This is what I want to bring to the United States Congress: an unapologetic display of the fabric of the people in this country.