Rita Ora Quotes

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

I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.

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?'

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

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 not white, I'm not black.

I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

I grew up as a Polynesian kid in the Polynesian community, and I was this skinny white kid.

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.

I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

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

I look like I'm Chinese or Thai or Japanese - very different.

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.

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

I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

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

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

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