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

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process of disfiguring the skin with various multicolored representations of people, animals, and various symbols.

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

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.

Nobody should be treated any type of way because of their color, their race, their gender, their socioeconomic status. We're all human.

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.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.