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I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

— George Zimmerman

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

— Natasha Trethewey

I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.

— Ian Anthony Dale

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

— Muhammad Ali

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

— Maya Lin

My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.

— Bill Flores

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.

— Helena Bonham Carter

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.

— Tia Mowry

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

— Salman Rushdie

I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.

— Vin Diesel

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Henry Louis Gates