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For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.

I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.

I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.