"You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy"
- Shemar Moore
About this Quote
In this quote, Shemar Moore is discussing his identity as a biracial individual. He discusses that he does rarely bring up race as a factor in his life, however acknowledges that he is both black and white. He takes pride in his brown skin and recognizes that the world may see him as a black male, however his mother did not raise him with a particular racial identity. This highlights the complexity of race and how it can be perceived in a different way by society and within families. Moore's words also recommend that race is not the specifying aspect of his identity, however rather a part of his multifaceted self.
This quote is written / told by Shemar Moore somewhere between April 20, 1970 and today. He was a famous Actor from USA.
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