Quotes About Mixed Race

#1. 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

#2. I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters.

Stephen Graham

#3. It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

Howard Charles

#4. I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son ... The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.

Celeste Ng

#6. I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

Soledad O'Brien

#7. Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#8. 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

#9. London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

JJ Feild

#10. 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

#11. My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

Alicia Keys

#12. Cuisine is a universal and mixed-race love marriage, in which man sublimates a place and a culture.

Marc Veyrat

#13. 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

#14. Still, whencesoever derived, the Egyptian people, as it existed in the flourishing time of Egyptian history, was beyond all question a mixed race, showing different affinities.

George Rawlinson

#15. 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

#16. I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Ruth Negga

#17. We all walked down the street together, looking like a sort of pick-and-mix adopted family: dad, disabled mum, and two differently mixed-race kids. Madonna would have been so proud of us.

J.L. Merrow

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

Mariah Carey

#19. It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

Dan O'Brien

#20. I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

Giancarlo Esposito

#21. I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

FKA Twigs

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

Melanie Brown

#23. No matter whether you're a gay or a mixed race couple; when you're drawn together, ultimately it doesn't matter what everybody thinks because it's so honest, true, and sincere. How can that be wrong?

Tegan Quin

#24. So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.

Warren Jeffs

#25. Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language

Clotye Murdock Larsson

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

Neneh Cherry

#27. The Olympics are getting mixed reviews. People are angry at NBC for showing a promo that revealed the winner of a swimming event even though the race hadn't aired yet. NBC apologized saying, 'We're just not used to people watching our network.'

Conan O'Brien

#28. If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

P.G. Wodehouse

#29. 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

#30. In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.

Ruth Benedict

#31. I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign.

Jasmine Ann Cooray

#32. Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races.

Calvin Coolidge

#33. All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

Benjamin Disraeli

#34. 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

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

Jonathan R. Miller

#36. 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

#37. All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

Robert A. Heinlein

#38. We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now ... won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?

Larry Brown

#39. Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.

William Stanley Jevons