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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.

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

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

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

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be treated differently because of the color of my skin.

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 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.

There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

I never thought of being disadvantaged.