Maya Rudolph Quotes

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.

I'm Jewish, so it's like I'm not totally white. I'm, like, gray.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

When you're biracial, you can feel like you're fully neither, not fully both. But I won't strip away my heritage for anyone's comfort.

My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.

To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.

I'm a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as I can remember - which, in mixed-people speak, means biracial.

I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I've had to deal with that since I was little. Who am I? What makeup do I have? What are the black and the white?

I'm black. I'm Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

I grew up on the coast of England in the '70s. My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people.

I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

Being biracial is so much a part of who I am that it's almost, 'Let it go already.' It's intrinsic to me. I think a lot of my fans relate to me because they felt different.

The idea that a person can be both black and white - and at the same time neither - is novel in America.

When you look at me, you can't really tell what I am, but I'm black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.

My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.