Ryan Giggs Quotes

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

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

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.

I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black."

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

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

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

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 never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

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

I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

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

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

When you're biracial, you can feel like you're fully neither, not fully both. But I won't strip away my heritage for anyone's comfort.

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.

Being biracial is so much a part of who I am that it's almost, 'Let it go already.' It's intrinsic to me. I think a lot of my fans relate to me because they felt different.

People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had an authentic black identity.

With my face paint on, I don't look like a regular black dude.