Friends know how much I am IN LOVEEEE with Wentworth Miller. For those that don’t know him, (have u been under a rock???), he’s the dude off of Prison Break. Why do I like him? Well, 1 he’s cute. 2 he’s seems humble and generally bewildered by the whole fame thing and 3, he’s mixed (I have a special places for us mixey babies). I found a website devoted to him (not that I was searching….) and it had some quotes. So repasting here. I read these and was like um, hello! aint’ this the truth!

On His Racial Identity

“A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another’s face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.”

“As far as being black versus African-American, I have a problem with hyphenates. I don’t want to be African-American or Chinese-American or Irish-American. My family’s been in this country for generations. There is no reason in the world why I can’t lay claim to just American.”

“My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing
around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn’t make at my family reunion.”

“I just had a conversation with a reporter in New York and he told me, ‘So you’re a mutt.’ And I told him, ‘You know, I find the term “mutt” deeply offensive.’ So he started back-pedaling and said, ‘I’m a mutt, too. I’m part German and part Irish.’ ‘That means you’re white,’ I told him. ‘But thank you for playing!’”

“It leaves a cut. Someone calls you nigger, and it’s like a knife to the gut. You suffer enough nicks and you bleed to death just the same. So when that happens, you’re confronted with the quandary: do I stop the party, do I grind things to a halt? And ideally you would each and every single time, but I have better things to do than to educate people.”