Jimmy Fallon Quotes

Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.

"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.

There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.

I can fool people that I was educated.

I think only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.

It was really tiring always pretending to be someone else. Not my life, not my real name, nothing.

I was never a white guy pretending to be black. Not once, ever, did it occur to me that I was being phony or fraudulent or fake. Quite the opposite - I always believed I was living the truest form of my self.

At one point, I bought brown contacts because people told me I wasn't Latin enough to play Latin, and I'm Puerto Rican. I went and bought brown contacts just so I could go in and look more Latino... but that was something that I've dealt with in this business.

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn't want to pancake my skin a lighter color to fit into the... ballet. I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to have to wear makeup that made my nose look thinner.

I notice, a lot of white rappers sometimes, they'll feel like they have to be, like, almost aggressive.

It's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you're disguising your origins in which someone doesn't get hurt.

The fans called me Jungleman. They said this young guy's not white. He's black in a white man's skin.

Ali was actually able to fool some people into thinking that Foreman was actually a white man.

I'm not a Rachel Dolezal. I don't fake tan; I don't have the cornrows, I don't misappropriate. I just want to be Beyonce.

A lot of people said I tried to speak white on the phone. That is farthest thing from the truth and offensive.

There was always a struggle with being Asian and not being Asian enough. It's going to be down to me to own my race.

As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine.

I've grown up feeling very American but being constantly bothered by people - there's internalized racism and feeling weird about being second-generation.

I realized I'm a very, very white dancer.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.