Fritz Hollings Quotes

I've never been one to carry race on my sleeve, and I've never been one to really use my race.

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 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.

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.

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.

Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

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.

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

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

I do consider myself part of black history.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

Our goal—a Racial Nation of and by ourselves—nothing less.

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

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

I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.

Our Luke Cage is a black hero, not a hero who happens to be black.

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

I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

I resent that I have to prove that I'm black.

If I were black, I could say I'm proud. If I were Asian, I could say I'm proud. If I were any other ethnicity, I could say I'm proud, because that's how our culture is, but if I'm white and I say I'm proud, the media will go nuts.