Rachel Dolezal Quotes

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.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that.

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud of my British side.

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

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

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

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

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

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

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

When you're biracial, people sort of make you gray - you're not black, you're not white, you're sort of gray; you're 'other.' And I'm fortunate to have parents that were strong enough to say, 'You're not 'other.' You're special.'

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

I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

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.

I am a black woman, and of course, that's who I'm going to be playing, but I'm also biracial, and that's a different side of the experience.

My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.

I, in particular, am in a confusing spot because I am Indian, but I am white, which people don't get. So often I find myself struggling to explain my Indianness.