Racial Background Quotes

I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.

I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.

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

I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

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

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

I'm biracial; I didn't know that until I was 7 or 8 years old. I thought I was full white, which, honestly, I can't even really say because I didn't see colors.

I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.

My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

Donald Trump is attacking President Obama's background. And I said, 'Wait a minute, Trump also is from a mixed background. He's half jack and half ass.'

My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish.

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

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.

My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

The thing is: Yes, I'm white and yes, I love African music, and I can't do anything about it.

I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

I'm actually Hispanic, and my mother is Puerto Rican.

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.