Multiracial Background Quotes

I am half Cuban American.

I grew up basically in a predominantly, you know, white community and I was mixed but as a kid you don't know that. So I was always different, always stood out and people would always make fun of me.

My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was a little browner than the other one. That's who I am. I feel sorry that it's taken so long for the film industry to figure it out and to catch up.

I've actually been asked once or twice if I had some Puerto Rican in me.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

I notice I have both African and Belgian characteristics.

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

My father is black - was black. My mother is white.

While I was able to pass as white as soon as I came to America, this was not really possible while I was growing up, as it was pretty obvious that I wasn't 'all German.' So my privilege was that in America, I could conveniently withhold one of my bloodlines and avoid racism and discrimination. That is not a privilege most people of color have.

I'm half Puerto Rican.

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

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

My father 'Pappy' who is black, is from Galveston and Fort Worth, Texas. My mother, who is white, is from San Diego.

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.