Winnie Harlow Quotes

For me personally, I have vitiligo, so my whole career, it's always been this very odd debate: 'Does she want to be white? Is she white and black? Is her mum white?' It's always been this question of my background, my race, and what I stand for.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

It is impossible to say with any certainty to which human race we belong. We all differ visibly in the color of our skin.

Colored people come in all colors.

There is no one American beauty or just one beautiful color in the pantheon, especially in regards to black people - there is no better color.

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

In my family, only my brother has a similar skin color. But in Senegal, the color is common.

You don't hear that much about me being a white and singing soul music in England, but I get the feeling that in America it's really a big thing. It's like, 'God, look at the color of her skin.'

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

I truly love my hair but my skin colour was something I couldn't get my head around.

My skin's not a normal sight.

People have black skin, people have brown skin. I have both.

To walk into a casting room full of people who look like you is a crazy thing. What is the thing that necessitates all of us having the exact same shade of skin and having the same hair? What about this deodorant commercial needs that?

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

I wanna begin saying a story about my son. I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman. He's got all the costumes. One day he looks at me and says 'Dad, I want to be light-skinned so I could be Spider-Man. Spider-Man has light skin.' That was sort of a shock. This is why I am excited to be a part of the Marvel Universe, so I could be hopefully provide that diversity in the role of the superhero.

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.

Your body is not your art - it's your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.

The colour of someone's skin doesn't explain anything.

I'm aware that I don't look like the traditional or the stereotypical type of Hollywood starlet and that is OK with me.

I'm short. I'm so Asian.

I think so many women out there start with a lot of insecurities about their skin tone and whatever it is about their hair or whatever is they feel a little bit uncomfortable with.

Models are people. A lot of people like to make us some species that are not human; we are normal people.

If God wanted be to be black, I'd be black; if he wanted me to be white, I'd be white, so I guess He chose for me to be both and original. That's the way I'm supposed to be.