Chris Hughton Quotes

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

That doll looks more like a black man than me.

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

I'm used to being the only black guy. I've seriously walked onstage, looked out in the audience, 15,000 people - and I'm the only one in the place. It's no big deal. My whole career's been like that.

There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.

I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.

I'm not a token black guy.

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

People always say, 'Oh, there haven't been many black champions,' but on the other hand, there are a whole lot of white people that never won a belt either.

I don't see myself a Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.

Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.

Well who's black and what is a black person?

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.

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.

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

Regardless of what I've ever done or will ever do, I'll always be black.