Biracial Quotes:

I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

- Keegan-Michael Key

topic: Biracial, Persons

I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don't really care for it.

- Mat Johnson

source: "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

topic: Ideas, Race, Care, Accentuate, Biracial

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

- Rashida Jones

topic: Community, Black, Want, Cherokee, Biracial

Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

- Drake

topic: Rap, Jumping, White, Biracial

I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person. Much to the chagrin of a lot of African-American people that I meet, because it's almost like there's a betrayal, an intrinsic betrayal: "Don't do that, brotha, we need you. We need you here, in this fold."

- Keegan-Michael Key

source: "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, tvclub.kinja.com. March 20, 2012.

topic: Betrayal, People, African American, Biracial, Chagrin

I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.

- Pooch Hall

topic: Jobs, Hero, Trying, Biracial, Action Heroes

I've always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I'd go to these record labels, and they'd say things like, "Lenny Kravitz. That's a weird name." I'm brown-skinned and I've got these dreadlocks and I've got this Jewish last name.

- Lenny Kravitz

source: Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

topic: Names, Labels, Records, Biracial, Dreadlocks

I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Reading, Thinking, White, Biracial

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

- Gugu Mbatha-Raw

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Character, Biracial, Girls Growing Up

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation Proclamation he advises some blacks to labor faithfully for reasonable wages, here in the United States. He doesn't say anything about them leaving the country. He puts black men in the army. That is a whole different vision than simply saying "let's have them go out of the country." I think what's interesting is the change in Lincoln's view, but one must realize that he did adhere to this idea of colonization for many years.

- Eric Foner

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Country, Army, Men, Biracial, Leaving The Country

I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If you live in America, you're doing whiteness all the time, even if you have no white people in your family.

- Melissa Harris-Perry

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Thinking, America, Ideas, Whiteness, Biracial

Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.

- Gloria Calderon Kellett

source: Source: www.refinery29.com

topic: Husband, Children, Men, Biracial

We[with Jordan Peele] wanted to do something with [Barack] Obama because we actually felt that Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place because there's this biracial person who might, you know, have to ride the divide between two different races.

- Keegan-Michael Key

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Different, Kind, Responsible, Biracial