You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.