Top 39 Quotes About Biracial

#1. 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

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#2. (The Eagles' song "Take It Easy") is clearly a problem of a young man, as no one over thirty-five could sustain interest in seven simultaneous relationships unless they're biracial and amazing at golf.

Chuck Klosterman

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#3. 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

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#4. We[with Jordan Peele] wanted to do something with [Barack] Obama because we actually felt that Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place because there's this biracial person who might, you know, have to ride the divide between two different races.

Keegan-Michael Key

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#5. 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

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#6. 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

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#7. Biracial." I correct with an edge. "Puppies are mixed.

Gisele Walko

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#8. In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.

Virginia Postrel

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#9. I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.

Pooch Hall

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#10. During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.' True.

Monica Crowley

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#11. I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don't really care for it.

Mat Johnson

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#12. I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If you live in America, you're doing whiteness all the time, even if you have no white people in your family.

Melissa Harris-Perry

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#13. 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

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#14. Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is, 'Who cares? You didn't marry a black person.'

Diane Farr

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#15. I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

Keegan-Michael Key

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

Zadie Smith

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#17. I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Natasha Trethewey

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#18. 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

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

Halsey

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#20. Do they know I'm black?" I ask. "I thought you were biracial." To most white people, black and biracial are the same thing.

Gisele Walko

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#21. 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

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#22. If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

Ian Fleming

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#23. Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany.

William Hjortsberg

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#24. The end of ourselves is the beginning of God

Carter Conlon

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#25. I'm at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie

Tara Michener

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#26. The things that we've learned are no longer enough.

Ian Curtis

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#27. Why were wonder and danger always so tightly interwoven?

Jenn Reese

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#28. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

Eckhart Tolle

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#29. I want to give people jobs and put them on great shows. I want to create careers for people.

Aldis Hodge

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#30. I like bread, and I like butter - but I like bread with butter best.

Sarah Weiner

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#31. I'm not a lesbian. I hate men, but I'm not a lesbian

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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#32. I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.

Gloria Estefan

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#33. Always think with your heart. Your mind will be sharper and smart.

Debasish Mridha

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#34. The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

Orlando Gibbons

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#35. If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You're in the right; but I'm going all the same.

Leo Tolstoy

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#36. You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.

Jonathan R. Miller

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#37. Christians are losers.

Ted Turner

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#38. The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luther

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#39. I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the 'black' box, a kind of momentary hesitation, a protest of stillness, a staring into the abyss of everything I did not know about myself. She, like me, was made of halves.

Olivia Sudjic

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