Yara Shahidi Quotes

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

The idea that a person can be both black and white - and at the same time neither - is novel in America.

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.

My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.

To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.

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.

I feel more Asian than anything.

My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.

I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

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.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

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.

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.