Being Biracial Quotes

#1. A clear and unified voice. In that context, this business of being biracial, of being half black and half white, is awkward.

Zadie Smith

#2. Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

Halsey

#3. Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

Halle Berry

#4. I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

Natasha Trethewey

#5. I've always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I'd go to these record labels, and they'd say things like, "Lenny Kravitz. That's a weird name." I'm brown-skinned and I've got these dreadlocks and I've got this Jewish last name.

Lenny Kravitz

#6. Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

Drake

#7. I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.

Drake Bell

#8. It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Drew Barrymore

#9. Giants of literature, philosophy, and the arts have influenced my life, but what have I done with this life? I remain a speck in a tumultuous universe that has little concern for me. I am no more than dust, a mote - dust to dust. I am a blade of grass upon which the stormtrooper's boot stomps.

Rabih Alameddine

#10. As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#11. Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

Robert Breault

#12. Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

Charles Caleb Colton

#13. Satan's kryptonite is separation through slander. He slanders God to us and us to God.

James MacDonald

#14. The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!

Walter Scott

#15. There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment.

Roxane Gay

#16. I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.

Jesse Williams

#17. I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

Natasha Trethewey

#18. It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

Sean Bean