Culture Quote by RaMell Ross

Growing up biracial and speaking four languages - French, Chinese, Portuguese, and English - gave me a different lens. I was always very acutely…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who I am.…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself…

— Jenny Zhang

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

— Lewis Schiff

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

— Tommy Hilfiger

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain…

— Wangari Maathai

Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

— Robert Griffin III

When I was growing up my mother made certain that I was exposed to people of all races and religions who were intelligent, educated,…

— Michaela DePrince

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

— Roxane Gay

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin…

— Sarah Jones

When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience…

— Edward Norton