Biracial Quotes

• 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

  Race, Ideas, Use

  "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Soy afortunada porque tengo tantas cosas culturales y raciales que chocan entre sí: negra, judía, irlandesa, portuguesa, cherokee. Puedo flotar y formar parte de la comunidad que quiera. Lo que pasa es que yo me identifico con ser negro, y si la gente no me identifica así es su problema. Me alegra cuestionar la idea que tiene la gente de lo que significa ser birracial, porque, ¿saben qué? En los próximos 50 años, la gente empezará a parecerse cada vez más a mí.

  Rashida Jones

  Años, Temas, Personas

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• 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

  Rap, Jumping, White

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. February, 2010.

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• I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person. Much to the chagrin of a lot of African-American people that I meet, because it's almost like there's a betrayal, an intrinsic betrayal: "Don't do that, brotha, we need you. We need you here, in this fold."

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Betrayal, People, African American

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, tvclub.kinja.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Soy afortunada porque tengo tantas cosas culturales y raciales que chocan entre sí: negra, judía, irlandesa, portuguesa, cherokee. Puedo flotar y formar parte de la comunidad que quiera.

  Rashida Jones

  Comunidad, Negro, Suerte

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

  Sala Pooch

  Jobs, Hero, Trying

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

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Personas

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

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• 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

  Names, Labels, Records

  Entrevista con Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. 14 de febrero de 2012.

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• I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Reading, Thinking, White

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Como niña birracial que creció en Inglaterra, nunca antes había visto en el cine personajes históricos que se parecieran a mí y que no fueran maltratados o interpretaran a esclavos.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Niña, Crecer, Carácter

  Fuente: aalbc.com

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• Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation Proclamation he advises some blacks to labor faithfully for reasonable wages, here in the United States. He doesn't say anything about them leaving the country. He puts black men in the army. That is a whole different vision than simply saying "let's have them go out of the country." I think what's interesting is the change in Lincoln's view, but one must realize that he did adhere to this idea of colonization for many years.

  Eric Foner

  Country, Army, Men

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Pensamiento, América, Ideas

  Fuente: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.

  Gloria Calderón Kellett

  Husband, Children, Men

  Fuente: www.refinery29.com

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• Nosotros [con Jordan Peele] queríamos hacer algo con [Barack] Obama porque en realidad sentimos que Obama era en cierto modo responsable de que nosotros consiguiéramos una serie en primer lugar, porque hay una persona birracial que podría, ya sabes, tener que atravesar la división entre dos razas diferentes.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Raza, Dos, Diferentes

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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