Important Quote by Dan O'Brien Download Open image “It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.” — Dan O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Important Me Mixed race Race Racism Think Thinking
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 myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like so many people around the world, I consider myself to be of mixed nationality. — Declan Rice Copy Share Image
But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is. — James McBride Copy Share Image
My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together. — Adwoa Aboah 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 it wasn't… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black. — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
I'm half-white and half-black. No-one will ever say I'm white, but all the road men think because I'm mixed race that I can't be… — AJ Tracey Copy Share Image
You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture. — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little. — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation. — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me. — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain. — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at. — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper. — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
