Interracial Quotes

If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I`d probably hang myself. It`s a TV show - selling cars, cereal, soda pop. TV is like that. The shows are incidental to the commercials. I always laugh when TV shows pat themselves on the back for being cutting-edge. I mean, an interracial kiss on "Ally McBeal" (1997) is cutting-edge? I`ve never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

You develop a lot of scars, being interracial.

I entered at an interesting time, after the L.A. riots, when the field was in crisis. A lot of the movement was down with solidarity with other races, but the riots were a shock. The focus became interracial relations, and they wanted to know what I thought. It gave me a weird credibility in the field. A lot of us got published in academic journals right away.