Being Quote by Corinne Bailey Rae

I was born in the Eighties, and at that time the idea of having a mixed-race child wasn't welcome. Then I was also an…

— Masaba Gupta

I definitely felt growing up that I wasn't seen as the same as anyone around me because no one around me looked like me.…

— Ncuti Gatwa

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I came from a council estate in the '80s which was predominantly black, white or Indian. Being Chinese mixed race we instantly stuck out.

— Gok Wan

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 short time…

— Sajid Javid

I grew up in a mixed-race family in Bristol. My cousin was this white guy who was interested in Parliament, Marc Bolan, Bowie. His…

— Tricky

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

I was the only mixed-race girl in my school, but for me, that was a positive thing; it made me unique. If it wasn't…

— Alesha Dixon

Growing up, there weren't many people on TV who looked like me - apart from the odd shopkeeper and the odd dodgy, racist joke…

— Asim Chaudhry

Like so many people around the world, I consider myself to be of mixed nationality.

— Declan Rice

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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…

— Redfoo