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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.