A Quote by Melanie Brown

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

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Melanie Brown
English - Artist
Born: May 29, 1975

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

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

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

Francesca Hayward

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

I came from a council estate in the '80s which was predominantly black, white or Indian. Being Chinese mixed race we instantly stuck out.

Gok Wan

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

Gabrielle Zevin

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

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

Mariah Carey

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

Paloma Elsesser

Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.

Matt de la Pena

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

Dan O'Brien

There are a lot of period dramas out there but not many opportunities for a mixed-race actress to play a period role.

Karla Crome

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

Rhiannon Giddens

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

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