Alex Tizon Quotes

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

Race has no genetic or scientific basis.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

Who says soul has only one colour?

Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

Racial lines, which once were bitterly real, now serve nothing more than marking out a living mosaic of human beings. And even here men of the same color are like the ivory keys of one instrument where each resembles all the rest, yet varies from them in pitch and quality of voice.

A built-in hazard of an aggressive ethnocentric movement which disregards the interests of other disadvantaged groups is that it will become parochial and ultimately self-defeating in the face of hostile reactions, dwindling allies, and mounting frustrations.... Only a broad movement for human rights can prevent the Black Revolution from becoming isolated and can insure ultimate success.

It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.

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

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

I would say 'The Big Narstie Show' is the United Colours of Benetton; it's for everyone. But I would definitely say that it has a black appeal, because that's what I am.

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

I'm Jewish, so it's like I'm not totally white. I'm, like, gray.

A model is supposed to represent reality, and in reality, people come in all shapes, sizes, nationality, and colour.

When you look at me, you can't really tell what I am, but I'm black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.

But it's different in England. We have different players from different races, even in the lower leagues. They don't have that in some places abroad.

Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.