Kathleen Brown Quotes

I am definitely a person of color.

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.

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

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

I definitely am not white.

Nothing about being white describes who I am.

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.

In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

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

The only thing Oriental about me, is my face.

I've always considered myself a person of color.

I am a black woman, and of course, that's who I'm going to be playing, but I'm also biracial, and that's a different side of the experience.

I identify as black.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

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

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

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

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.

I am myself of a mixed background.

I'm a quarter Chinese and three-quarter Filipino. I don't look Filipino; I look more Chinese or Korean. It actually works in my favor: in terms of roles, it gives me a broader canvas.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.