Quotes About Being Mixed Race

#1. I do think women are unfairly judged by their physical appearance, but I don't think it had anything to do with being mixed-race. In my opinion, mixed-race people are the most beautiful.

Zoe Kravitz

#2. I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

Naya Rivera

#3. I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

Mariah Carey

#4. I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.

Melanie Brown

#5. We looked not at each other, and neither at the ground, but at a place in space a few feet from our faces, where I suppose one looks for a clear answer to appear out of undefined shock.

Christopher Moore

#6. I remembered his expression remained not exactly bored so much as philosophically separate

Joe Dunthorne

#7. Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Brian Koslow

#8. Race mixing becomes a crime worse than treason. Humans being humans, and sex being sex, that prohibition never stopped anyone. There were mixed kids in south Africa 9 months after the first Dutch boats hit the beach at Table Bay.

Trevor Noah

#9. My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

Suge Knight

#10. I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

Antonia Thomas

#11. And sleep that night on the cold plains of a foreign land, forty-six men wrapped in their blankets under the selfsame stars, the prairie wolves so like in their yammering, yet all about so changed and strange.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.

Halsey

#13. The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.

Randall Kennedy

#14. She was like having our own nanny, the Sex Nanny Sent By Satan.

Mark Peter Hughes

#15. When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.

Halle Berry

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

Neneh Cherry