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To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.

— Meghan Markle

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

— Heath Ledger

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

— Neneh Cherry

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

— Hari Kondabolu

What is it to be white? It does mean something to be Norwegian. It means something to be Polish or German or Spanish. But 'white' is simply a catchall for 'light-skinned person.' It doesn't really mean anything.

— Keith Ellison

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

— Lupita Nyong'o

To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

— Keegan-Michael Key

The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.

— Issa Rae

✗Opposing Perspectives

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

— Ed Smith

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.

— Montel Williams

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

— Steve Nash