Mulattoes Quotes

• I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I've dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.

  Mat Johnson

  White, People, African American

  "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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• The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.

  Jacques Roumain

  Music, Song, Father

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• Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.

  Ernest Gaines

  Teacher, Enemy, Dying

  Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.67, Serpent's Tail

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• Estados Unidos nunca ha tenido un vocabulario muy amplio para el mestizaje. Decimos que nos gusta la diversidad, pero no nos gusta la idea de que nuestro vecino hispano vaya a casarse con nuestra hija. América no tiene nada parecido al vocabulario español del mestizaje. Mulato, mestizo, criollo: estos términos españoles y franceses sugieren, por su uso, que el mestizaje es un hecho. En América sólo hay blancos y negros. En la América del siglo XVIII, si tenías una gota de sangre africana, eras negro.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Hija, Blanco y Negro, Sangre

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and … most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood.

  Madison Grant

  Real, Blood, White

  Madison Grant (2013). “The Conquest of a Continent”, p.298, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto — not just as regards students but also professors. Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.

  Che Guevara

  Doors, Color, People

  "'The University Should Color Itself Black, Mulatto, Worker and Peasant'". Speech to the University of Las Villas, www.themilitant.com. December 28, 1959.

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• (Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.

  Stefan Zweig

  Christian, Jobs, Freedom

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