People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.
When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.
My features are completely ethnic.
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.
My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.
I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
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