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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

— Irina Shayk

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

— Ice T

My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

— Bella Thorne

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

— Merry Clayton

My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.

— Cassie Ventura

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

— Tia Mowry

My father has fair skin, and my mother is dark, and I'm kind of cafe au lait.

— Lela Rochon

'Negro' can refer to anyone with dark hair as well as dark skin, and I've been used to the word being used in Spanish in this way all my life.

— Luis Suarez

✗Opposing Perspectives

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

— Annie Ilonzeh

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

— Raquel Welch

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

— Henry Louis Gates