88 Quotes About Ethnicity

Heritage - be proud of it for you will be its legacy. It's your responsibility to carry on and learn your heritage. Otherwise, it will be lost.

Despite it all, there were heroes who rose above their circumstances. Those who reached out to people of another race with compassion and even love.

Anybody who thinks that shadeism does not exist is not being honest.

Nearly two decades later, others would raise this question, would talk about books as mirrors and windows, and Ed Lim, tired by then, would find himself as frustrated as he was grateful. We’ve always known, he would think; what took you so long?

Conversely, the red plant itself burns a brighter red when set off by the green than when it grows among its peers. In the bed I always reserved for poinsettia seedlings, there was little to distinguish one plant from its neighbours. My poinsettia did not turn scarlet until I planted it in new surroundings. Colour is not something one has, colour is bestowed on one by others.

you were in my dream last night. it was good to see you again.

The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.

To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.

White people can describe themselves with just American. Only when pressed do they go into their ethnic heritage. Doesn't seem fair that I have to forever explain my origin story with that silent hyphen, whereas white people don't. It's complicated. But simple. Simplicated.