Rachel Dolezal Quotes

I definitely am not white.

I've always called myself a different shade of Brown.

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

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

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'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.

Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does.

I've always considered myself a person of color.

Never have I once identified myself as white.

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

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

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

You can't get much whiter than me.

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.

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 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.

Well, I think that I have a complicated relationship with whiteness because oftentimes, I pass as white, and I recognize that. I would be disingenuous to pretend that I don't pass as white.

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.

I never though much about race.

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.

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.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.