Character Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Know that I have a black child I'd like to have a mixed child. To me they are a sign of harmony of everything…

— Marlon Cortez Stanfield

In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness…

— Jenna Wortham

Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the idea of…

— Shelby Steele

So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings.…

— Cornel West

Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder…

— Jared Taylor

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

For white people, their identities rest on the idea of racism as about good or bad people, about moral or immoral singular acts, and…

— Robin DiAngelo

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black…

— Alice Walker

Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an…

— Darryl Pinckney

“But some people don’t want to believe that, because if varying degrees of blackness become normalized, then that means society has to rethink how…

— Phoebe Robinson

There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that difference is…

— David Oyelowo

The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or…

— Wentworth Miller