Mixed Race Quotes

• I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.

  Reggie Watts

  Race, Expression, White

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• I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Mother, Father, Race

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• When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.

  Halle Berry

  Children, Growing Up, Race

  "Halle Berry Is No Stranger to Hard Work". Interview with Steven Rea, www.ocregister.com. April 14, 2007.

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• The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.

  Wentworth Miller

  Thinking, Race, Issues

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.

  Melanie Brown

  Thinking, Race, Community

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• My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

  Alicia Keys

  America, Race, Black

  "'I love Chopin. He's my dawg'". Interview with Ian Gittins, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2002.

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• London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

  JJ Feild

  Race, Earth, London

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.

  Matt de la Pena

  Growing Up, Kids, Reality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

  Morgan Freeman

  White, Kansas, America

  "Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2012.

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

  Dan O'Brien

  Thinking, Race, Important

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• I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups.

  Charles R. Drew

  Army, Race, Views

  "One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew" by Spencie Love, (pp. 155-156), 1996.

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• I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

  Gabrielle

  Mother, Father, Race

  "In 'Storied Life,' Characters Come With A Reading List". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 28, 2014.

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• I do think women are unfairly judged by their physical appearance, but I don’t think it had anything to do with being mixed-race. In my opinion, mixed-race people are the most beautiful.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Beautiful, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. May 12, 2015.

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• What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Men, Scotch, Race

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• I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of working all over the world. I've enjoyed a great degree of variety in the work that I've done. It's been quite unique.

  Thandie Newton

  Unique, Race, Black

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.

  Celeste Ng

  Son, Race, Perception

  Interview With Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

  Antonia Thomas

  Drama, Race, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

  Howard Charles

  Nice, Character, Race

  "Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, and Howard Charles Talk THE MUSKETEERS, Character Backstory, Favorite Action Sequences, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 21, 2014.

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