Brian Sandoval Quotes

The only thing Oriental about me, is my face.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

I don't think of myself as being colored but of being Australian.

I had an Indian face, but I never saw it as Indian, in part because in America the Indian was dead. The Indian had been killed in cowboy movies, or was playing bingo in Oklahoma. Also, in my middle-class Mexican family indio was a bad word, one my parents shy away from to this day. That's one of the reasons, of course, why I always insist, in my bratty way, on saying, Soy indio! - "I am an Indian!"

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.

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

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

I am definitely a person of color.

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

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

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

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'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was very blond-haired, white, and 'Lemonhead' was the name that they gave me.

Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

I definitely am not white.

I may be brown on the outside, but on the inside, I'm all American.

I've lived 16, 17 years of my life in Asia, and that's most of my life. I was born in Asia - I've lived cultures that are synonymous with Asian culture - but it's still not Asian enough for some people.

I've always considered myself a person of color.