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Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

— Sarah Silverman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

— Brene Brown

As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!

— Rainbow Rowell

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

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

— Oprah Winfrey

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They'd say, 'When you walk into a room and it's all white, those kids have to work to stand out, not you.'

— Will Packer

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

— Robert Griffin III

I grew up in an all-white community.

— Gayle King

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.

— Issa Rae

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.

— Stokely Carmichael

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

— Neneh Cherry