You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.
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Related I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very... SHEMAR MOORE As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a w... LARRY BIRD I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d... AVA DUVERNAY Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition ... CARMEN EJOGO I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white... CHARLIE SIFFORD I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get m... JAMES MCAVOY Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white m... BOB MARLEY I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones a... EDWARD BROOKE I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think t... NENE LEAKES You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. CLARENCE THOMAS I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolat... JOHN BOYEGA When you look at me, you can't really tell what I am, but I'm black, white, Native, Spanish,... KEHLANI One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could lov... CICELY TYSON I remember I went through a period where I didn't embrace my 'chocolatiness.' I don'... KELLY ROWLAND People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My inno... CARINE ROITFELD The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-b... BEN SHAPIRO Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin t... MAHALIA JACKSON Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, the... JOHN SINGLETON I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black m... MORGAN FREEMAN I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I s... BOB MARLEY It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptabl... CARLY SIMON You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern. KEITH RICHARDS I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything ... ALAN LADD When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h... PATRICIA SUN I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial suc... CEELO GREEN Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means ... LARRY FITZGERALD I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because w... CURT FLOOD My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't th... EDWARD P. JONES I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth cert... LES DAWSON I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on ... REGGIE WATTS I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was ... JUNOT DIAZ A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother c... FRED HAMPTON Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games. ZAYN MALIK I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is... J. D. SOUTHER I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm g... NATALIA KILLS I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white. HEATH LEDGER Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ... LYNN JOHNSTON I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop. AISHA TYLER I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind o... KHLOE KARDASHIAN I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do. BENICIO DEL TORO You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it.... CAB CALLOWAY Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know. FAY GODWIN Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wan... TIM SCOTT I don't think of people as black or white. It's a question of are they photogenic or not? I ... EILEEN FORD I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana R... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? RIDLEY SCOTT I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't rea... DICK CAVETT I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You s... ZENDAYA You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I... OBIE TRICE I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colo... VERITE My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's e... BRUCE SUTTER I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't... P. C. CAST I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like tha... BRADLEY COOPER You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even ... JOYCELYN ELDERS I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility.... OPRAH WINFREY I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever t... WALE Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforwa... ZAYN MALIK I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me. RACHEL GIBSON A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories ... BRITTANY SNOW In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause '... STUART SCOTT I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I... CHRIS ROCK Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's ... TUCKER CARLSON Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don'... AVRIL LAVIGNE I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. L... ZOE KRAVITZ Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm... BRAD PAISLEY In films, I didn't crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. A... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biraci... MEGHAN MARKLE We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fas... TONY GOLDWYN When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don&... TA-NEHISI COATES I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have ... GARY ROSS Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It's a third-world country, and you are trying to m... FRENCH MONTANA Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or... LATOYA JACKSON I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, b... ANTHONY HOPKINS While the books I read as a child lacked diversity in the strict sense, they didn't lack values.... JEWELL PARKER RHODES I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I... JESSICA WILLIAMS I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not reall... PANSY HO I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my toug... MARY J. BLIGE A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they... LADAINIAN TOMLINSON Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain. B. B. KING I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man. THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discriminati... ADA YONATH The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up ... CONDOLA RASHAD Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really... UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my iden... LEBRON JAMES I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at t... MARILYN MONROE There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid... DALEY THOMPSON I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. M... DOROTHY HAMILL I can't wait to see little white kids dressing up as Black Panther. STERLING K. BROWN I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my... LACEY CHABERT My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise t... JO BRAND I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to pi... BARBARA KRUGER I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't k... NATE BERKUS Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 't... SHARON JONES I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man. ASTRO I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music. TYLER, THE CREATOR In my case, of course, people had a lot of expectations, but that didn't pressurise me because I... ARMAAN MALIK I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is a... GUY GAVRIEL KAY I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join. DAVID ALAN GRIER
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... THOMAS MOORE Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,
See... THOMAS MOORE Cheek . . .
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Black as the damning drops that fall
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