Irina Shayk Quotes

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

I look like I'm Chinese or Thai or Japanese - very different.

So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to added complexity. Interracial amalgamation will produce some individuals whose features diverge from those commonly ascribed to the races of their ancestors.

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.

I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.

My features are completely ethnic.

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

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.

I gotta lot of Black Irish in me.

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

I'm one-fourth Tatar and three-fourths Bashkirian.

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

The majority of my blood is Asian.

It is impossible to say with any certainty to which human race we belong. We all differ visibly in the color of our skin.

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws people for a loop. My mother's first husband is Mexican. That's where I got Lopez.

My skin - very Mexican, very Oaxaquenan, and very human, from the color of my land and the diversity of its colors.

In my family, only my brother has a similar skin color. But in Senegal, the color is common.

I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.