H. Rap Brown Quotes

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

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

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

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.

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

I am a tropical black man.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

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 wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

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

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.