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Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.

Being of color in America by no means amounts to a constant barrage of negativity. However, unlike being white, being of color means one's race is a constant issue.

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.

Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a global community.

I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.