Sarah Cooper Quotes

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

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.

People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had an authentic black identity.

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 don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

I am a Nubian.

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

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 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.

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

You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro.

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

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

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

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

My children don't look Hispanic.

In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.

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

There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.