I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians.
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
I think a person of colour in any situation should be qualified to do the job. Not just because of the colour of their skin.
I've never claimed myself to be a particularly Asian R&B singer. I'm R&B, pure and simple, regardless of my skin colour. Should that matter? I think not.
I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.
Growing up in a system that tells you just because of your skin colour you are not good enough - you learn at a very young age to toughen up.
It's high time the film industry stopped treating fair skin as a parameter of beauty. You could be the fairest of them all, but if you have a wicked soul, you aren't beautiful at all. So, skin colour doesn't define a person's beauty.
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
I was teased about Indian food and the colour of my skin and why my knees and elbows were dark.
I don't care one bit about people's race or skin colour.
We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.
I would wish we would get to a place of colour-blind casting, where it didn't matter what colour skin you are, where you came from, anybody could play anybody and we didn't judge it.
The colour of someone's skin doesn't explain anything.
Some things you never really fully understand unless you are actually black and you experience how it feels when someone treats you differently based on your skin colour.
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.
No man’s fundamental rights should depend on the colour of his skin.
I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor.
I'm determined to not let my skin colour or the fact that I come from Africa be a hindrance.
In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the laboratory; I doubt if the sagacity of the researchers who have studied the question has overlooked the possibility.
I think people are more than their heritage or their skin colour or their name or how they grew up.
I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.
I truly love my hair but my skin colour was something I couldn't get my head around.
I just don't think the Democratic party is going to vote for someone because of the colour of their skin. They care about their values. They care what they're going to fight for. They care about their vision for the future.
It really should not matter which colour of skin a person has. I know where my roots are, and I know that I've been born and raised in Germany. I see myself as a German, and I like to show that.
