Quotes About Identity

I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.

I'm colour blind, a little hue-challenged.

I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.

As a kid, I was called Tintin because of my hair colour and style.

We're all people, no matter what colour.

There's this idea if you are a woman of colour, that you must never let them see you break down. That we've got to show ourselves in the best light, always, as the 'Strong Black Women' and bring that 'black girl magic' all the time.

Because I was assigned female at birth and I am light-skinned, white, I think people hear my message more than they hear it from someone who was assigned male at birth and is a person of colour.

I'm a gay man of colour.

Maroon is my favourite colour.

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

If you're a woman of colour and you have any level of education, you have to adapt.

I've had every colour hair you can think of.

There is one thing that is stronger than everything, and it is the colour of the shirt that you wear, and that is who you'll back.

The colour of someone's skin doesn't explain anything.

I truly love my hair but my skin colour was something I couldn't get my head around.

I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.

I'm proud of my colour, I'm proud of my skin, I'm proud of who I am.

The astonishing thing for me is that I had a career before politics and I never thought about my colour.

I didn't want to be a 16-year-old kid being beaten up by a bunch of people who didn't like me 'cause of the colour of my skin.

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me. We have a massive problem with racism, which is built into our society.

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me.

Sometimes I felt I was being treated differently to my bandmates because of the colour of my skin.

I think when you look at Little Mix you think pop, colour, you think fun - you don't really think that there are actual things that we all go through, but we all do go through things and we do have a lot to say.

Do not let anything hold you back - especially the colour of your skin, that's ridiculous and it shouldn't be anything to hold you back.