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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.

I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so much with me. He says: 'Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.'

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.

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.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.