Mark Quote by Roger Bannister

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it…

— Toyin Odutola

I remember being asked for the first time about my race, and it really took me by surprise, just that it was a point…

— Francesca Hayward

I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it…

— Toyin Odutola

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

— Michaela Coel

When I was younger, sure, I wanted to have some degree of, shall we say, identity. But it never came.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

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

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there…

— Issa Rae

I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I've had to deal with that since I was little. Who am…

— Rhiannon Giddens

People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely…

— Allen Iverson

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 am a marked person, and no one who's unmarked is going to understand that. It's very intimidating. I don't even know what my…

— Amanda Knox

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to…

— Barack Obama