Highlights to me:

  
"I don't know any mixed person, specifically black & white who doesn't claim that they're black or doesn't claim that they're white."

"And we don't *pick and choose* when we wanna be black and when we wanna be white, how can you pick and choose something that you are?"

  
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"It doesn't matter what you think in your head \[when dealing with other people's perception of you in regards to race and how they categorize people racially\]. If you look like you have color on you \[to many people\] you're black. Of course WE know that we're mixed \[but our self-knowledge doesn't determine external perception dependent on the other person and the specific environment\]."

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"I don't ever pick and choose shit. I'm me all the way through. It doesn't matter how someone talks... Somebody can talk \[what you perceive as\] white *but might not feel that way*. You talk the way that you talk but your hands work the way that they work."

"**You can't judge someone based on how they talk or how they look**. You have to **judge someone based on how they are** **and** **what they think**."

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"There's this thing in the black community where a lot of black people think we pick and choose when we want to be black and the thing is, for most of us when we were a kid - people didn't know that we were white/mixed \[or refer to us that way\]. They just called us black. They saw our darker complexion, our afro or curly hair... and that's just how it was."

  
"Just to clarify since I see a lot of weird shit. Whether you're a black person or a white person, I have nothing to prove to you. A white person can come up to me and say, *oh you're not fully white* **and I don't care what they think**. I have nothing to prove to them. **I don't live my life to appease white people or to appease black people**. I don't live my life to be validated by a group of white people or a group of black people. I validate myself."

IG influencer stands up to the anti B&W discourse