Paris Jackson Quotes

I identify as black.

I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.

I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.

I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.

I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.

I've always called myself a different shade of Brown.

I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.

It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.

My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.

When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.