I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Being mixed race in Britain in the '80s and '90s, there just weren't loads of people who looked like me. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
There are a lot of period dramas out there but not many opportunities for a mixed-race actress to play a period role. — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
“Cuisine is a universal and mixed-race love marriage, in which man sublimates a place and a culture.” — Marc Veyrat Copy Share Image
And I always talk about how when you're mixed race, you often get told you're this, you're not that' or you're not… — Isa Briones Copy Share Image
I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I've had to deal with that since I was little.… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
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… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
“This kid was writing saying that they were breaking down some of the racial lines in their towns and communities, because their… — Michael Holman Copy Share Image
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.… — Jasmine Ann Cooray Copy Share Image
Maybe because I'm mixed race, I don't see the colour when I look at Meghan; I just see a beautiful, articulate, lovely… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
I was the only mixed-race girl in my school, but for me, that was a positive thing; it made me unique. If… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black - and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
The chip on my shoulder was just because I was a mixed-race kid. That was it. That's where that chip comes from.… — Eddie Kingston Copy Share Image
What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From… — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Copy Share Image
I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race. — Melanie Brown Copy Share Image
I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son…The racial perception interest is probably always going… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
My children are mixed race. I want them to think: 'This is our country, our father's family has been here for thousands… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
I'm mixed race - my dad's Caucasian, and my mom's Mexican - so I want to play anything and everything, from American… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
In Berkeley, California is no sense of the "white way being the right way." Parents also come in every variety - mixed… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
You could say mixed-race Eurasians have the exact same struggles as a character like Rachel Chu has had: not feeling at home… — Henry Golding Copy Share Image
I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
“I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being… — Naya Rivera Copy Share Image
I had a meeting a while back with a big group of women - actors and producers and writers - who are… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I was born in the Eighties, and at that time the idea of having a mixed-race child wasn't welcome. Then I was… — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
It's all right to have black captains and mixed-race in the under-18s and under-21s, but not for the full national side. There… — Sol Campbell Copy Share Image
I do think women are unfairly judged by their physical appearance, but I don’t think it had anything to do with being… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an… — Charles R. Drew Copy Share Image
Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race,… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
Today, I don't think anyone would think that a mixed-race couple looks odd; I think it's considered perfectly normal. In a very… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
Zimbabwe was still a relatively young country when I was living there and its post-apartheid society was only newly formed. Being a… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends who are in mixed race relationships who are gay. But I think that the reason it… — Anika Noni Rose Copy Share Image
I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
