Appearance Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the…

— Jenny Han

I've been in situations where I was 'black boy white,' or 'white boy black.' People didn't know, "Is he the whitest black person in…

— Kevin michael

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this…

— Montel Williams

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

— Neneh Cherry

Nothing about being white describes who I am.

— Rachel Dolezal

“One of the more obvious differences between modern humans is skin color. We make crude visual distinctions and effectively meaningless categorizations based on average…

— Adam Rutherford

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

— Heath Ledger

I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition…

— Mat Johnson

I've always considered myself a person of color.

— Kali Uchis

Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does.

— Rachel Dolezal

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is…

— Thylias Moss