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In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

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.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.