Lester Holt Quotes

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

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

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.

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'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.

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

When I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial.

Black people, we are not this monolithic group, you know?

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.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.

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.

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.

The music I like or the football teams I like or the food I eat has nothing to do with me being black.

I definitely am not white.

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

I'm not going to be one of those people who says, 'I'm a showrunner; I'm not a black showrunner.' I'm black when I go to sleep. I'm black when I wake up, period. It doesn't affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it.

I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.

I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness.

I don't like the term 'black film,' and I am proud to be black.

The problem with most liberals - myself included - is we tend to think we're post-racial: that we've got a handle on things because we're not racists.

Nothing about being white describes who I am.

I'm not going to play a racial game. With me, you're going to meet a guy named Shelby Steele, and you will have to get to know me as an individual. The color of my skin won't tell you anything. I think there's more and more of that in America.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.