A Quote by Francesca Hayward

The force for change I represent is of course from being a mixed-race ballerina.

Francesca Hayward

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Ballerina Being Change Course Force Mixed Race Represent

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Francesca Hayward
English - Dancer
Born: 1992

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

Melanie Brown

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

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

Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black - and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain ideas of black heritage and racial identity in their mixed-race children, regardless of how they look.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

Paloma Elsesser

'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn't like it.

John Mellencamp

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

Karen Kain

The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.

Wentworth Miller

Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world.

Pharrell Williams

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

Rhiannon Giddens

I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.