Robert "Bob" (Nesta) Marley
English x Afro-Jamaican


(Robyn) Rihanna Fenty
Afro-Guyanese x Afro-Barbadian/European American


Sean Paul (Ryan Francis Henriques)
Sephardic Jewish/Portuguese x Afro-Caribbean/Chinese-Jamaican


Mariah Carey
Irish x Afro-Venezuelan


Alicia Keys (born Alicia Augello Cook)
Irish-Italian x African Jamaican


Shakira (Isabel Mebarak Ripoll)
Italian/Spanish Colombian x Lebanese


Beyoncé (Giselle) Knowles
African American x Creole (African, Native American, French)


Lisa (Michelle) Bonet
African American x Jewish American


(Leonard Albert) "Lenny" Kravitz
Russian Jewish x African Bahamian


Zoë (Isabella) Kravitz
African American, Bahamian, Russian, Jewish


Ne-Yo (born Shaffer Chimere Smith)
African American x African/Chinese American


Kelis (Rogers-Jones)
African American x Chinese-Puerto Rican


Amerie (Mi Marie Rogers)
African American x Korean


Sade (born Helen Folasade Adu)
Nigerian African x English


Mýa (Marie Harrison)
African American x Italian


Nicole (Prescovia Elikolani Valiente) Scherzinger
Filipino x Hawaiian/Russian/German


Michelle (Jacquet) Branch
French, Dutch, Irish, Indonesian


(Geethali) Norah Jones (Shankar)
Anglo-American x Indian-Bengali


Lucia Micarelli
Italian x Korean


Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall
Scottish, Irish, Chinese


Corinne Bailey Rae (born Corinne Jacqueline Bailey)
Kittitian x English


Christina (María) Aguilera
Hispanic, Irish, Guyanese, African American


Rozonda (Ocelean) "Chilli" Thomas
Arab/East Indian x African American/Native American


Cassie (born Cassandra Ventura)
Filipino x Caribbean/African/Mexican/Native American


Vanessa (Anne) Hudgens
Irish/Native American x Filipino/Spanish/Chinese


Rosario Dawson
Puerto Rican, Afro-Cuban, Native American, Irish


Jennifer Beals
African American x Irish American


Shemar (Franklin) Moore
African American x Irish/French-Canadian


Halle Berry
European American x African American


Naomi Campbell
African/Chinese-Jamaican


Kristin (Laura) Kreuk
Dutch, Chinese-Jamaican, Chinese-Indonesian


Jessica (Marie) Alba
Danish/French Canadian x Mexican American


(Kimberly) Alexis Bledel
Danish x Mexican American


William (Henry) Demps, Jr.
African American x Korean


Chanel Iman (Robinson)
African American x Korean


Dwayne Johnson
African Nova Scotian/Canadian x Samoan


Isabelle (Yasmine) Adjani
Kabyle Algerian-Turkish x German


Olivia Hussey
English x Argentine


Kelly (Ann) Hu
English/Hawaiian/Chinese


Keanu (Charles) Reeves
English x Hawaiian/Chinese American


Keisha Castle-Hughes
Māori x English Australian


Camilla Belle (Routh)
Brazilian/European


Shannyn Sossamon (born Shannon Marie Kahoolani Sossamon)
Dutch, English, Irish, German, French, Filipino, Hawaiian


Benjamin G. Bratt
German/English x Peruvian


Phoebe Cates (born Phoebe Belle Katz)
Chinese Filipino x Russian Jewish


Kathryn "Kate" Bailey Beckinsale
English, Burmese


Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II)
German, Irish, Cherokee


(Joseph) Jason (Namakaeha) Momoa
Native Hawaiian, European


Indira Varma
Indian x Swiss/Genoese Italian


Vin Diesel (born Mark Sinclair Vincent)
Italian, African American


Wentworth (Earl) Miller III
African American, Jamaican, English, German, Jewish, Russian, Dutch, French, Syrian, Lebanese


Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods
African/Native American, Dutch, Chinese, Thai


Barack (Hussein) Obama II
English American x Kenyan African

Who would've thunk that a black (half African) kid with the middle name "Hussein" would one day grow up to
become the 44th President of the United States?
We witnessed a miracle.
I'm a dork for still getting misty eyed over it.

Now if we could just learn to look beyond color and see ethnicity and class...
Race is still an issue. They say "money is the root of all evil." It's always been about greed, for land and riches,
and oppression. Apathy makes it worse.

A lot of Hispanic Americans and African Americans have European ancestry, but they either don't
know it or no one really talks about it.
For centuries, Native Central/South American and African women were enslaved and raped by European (Spanish, French, English, etc.) slave owners
in America.
Many Native Americans were killed by European diseases.
Native Americans who were once the majority have now become the minority in their own motherlands.
Today, American = white or person of European descent,
not indigenous or Native Americans.
Native Americans are still erroneously referred to as "Indians."

Europeans colonized Asia as well.
Middle Easterners and Asians never had to suffer from slavery but they faced European oppression, whether in their
countries or when they immigrated to the Americas for job opportunies like Europeans before them.
However, the U.S. military's involvement in the Korean War and Vietnam War caused many disadvantaged Korean and Vietnamese women
to marry U.S. soldiers of European or African descent.

Nowadays, it's not uncommon to find interracial couples all over the world.
Some things, like racism, haven't changed. As long as European Americans have more power and wealth, non-European Americans
or minorities must assimilate European American culture in order to ascend in status.
Even though some minorities succeed, they still face racism.
As long as some races have more power and wealth than others,
there will continue to be racism.

As long as racism and ethnocentrism persist, there can't be equality between men and women.
Thus, it's white men or men of European ancestry and high social and economic
status who hold the most power and wealth.
Non-white women or non-European women of low social and economic status suffer the most.
For women, beauty is just as valuable as intelligence.
For non-white women, beauty is the most valuable asset.
What is beauty? Who defines female beauty?
In a world where white men dominate, beauty = the white/European ideal of beauty.
That is slowly starting to change. Multi-racial beauty is all the rage now.

...I'm more curious.

What?

Women receive other bodies. I wonder what it's like.

When the wave breaks... to be exact... well, what happens is... the wave takes form... but you don't feel the form.
It's like an emotion. Does it make sense?

Kind of.

When I feel thus, I feel like I can forgive everything.

Sounds beautiful.

What does?

Being a woman.

...bitter
from the moment you took those first steps, there were always places to go and things to accomplish
the way i see it, life = deficiency + living = being never good enough
the song that best encapsulates life is "Try" by Nelly Furtado

there is never ENOUGH time
nothing is ever good ENOUGH

...sweet
we're only really living when we're monotonously distracting ourselves from all those deficiencies
when we revel in the beauty of imperfection

...spicy
first times can be the most wondrous best times. the rest of your life is spent trying to achieve the high of the first time. unfortunately, nothing you ever do will ever be as good
as the first time.
that's how nostalgia is born.
the best weapon to use against nostalgia is the refreshing stimulation of variety, which is the spice of life. forbidden fruits are highly coveted.
choose a path, follow it and don't look back too often. ignorance is bliss.

according to the ancient Greeks, 'love' isn't just 4 letters; it is manifest in 4 forms..

01 storge - FAMILY love; is the earliest form of love. without it, you can't possibly learn the other forms of love..




02 philos - sisterly/brotherly love AKA FRIENDSHIP; is at the core of companionship, this forms the basis of all relationships, esp with those who are not family or relatives.





03 eros - ROMANTIC love; most unstable and unpredictable (precisely what makes it so exhilarating), hence must be moderated as it can lead to pure irrationality, mindless self-indulgence, scandals, catastrophes, etc.. unlike other forms of love, rarely lasts a lifetime.




04 agape - selfless love; a love that extends beyond family, friendship and a significant other, is the highest, purest form of love.. no matter what your personal beliefs, you deem every single form of life worthy of indiscriminate, unconditional love. no, it's not the easiest, but it's the most meaningful.

Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
'cause it's OK to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
'cause you think that being a girl is degrading
But secretly, you'd love to know what it's like
Wouldn't you
What it feels like for a girl





you'd have to be a masochist to willingly become a girl.
to relinquish your autonomy and privileges of a white male (THE most privileged human being)
in exchange for the oppression of a girl, you must really like suffering.





if you're young and pretty, it could be sweet ...at first.




but with age, comes reality...












Take this pink ribbon off my eyes
I'm exposed
And it's no big surprise
Don't you think I know
Exactly where I stand
This world is forcing me
To hold your hand
'Cause I'm just a girl, little 'ol me
Don't let me out of your sight
I'm just a girl, all pretty and petite
So don't let me have any rights

Oh...I've had it up to here!
The moment that I step outside
So many reasons
For me to run and hide
I can't do the little things I hold so dear
'Cause it's all those little things
That I fear

'Cause I'm just a girl I'd rather not be
'Cause they won't let me drive
Late at night I'm just a girl,
Guess I'm some kind of freak
'Cause they all sit and stare
With their eyes

I'm just a girl,
Take a good look at me
Just your typical prototype

Oh...I've had it up to here!
Oh...am I making myself clear?
I'm just a girl
I'm just a girl in the world...
That's all that you'll let me be!
I'm just a girl, living in captivity
Your rule of thumb
Makes me worry some

I'm just a girl, what's my destiny?
What I've succumbed to Is making me numb
I'm just a girl, my apologies
What I've become is so burdensome
I'm just a girl, lucky me
Twiddle-dum there's no comparison

Oh...I've had it up to!
Oh...I've had it up to!!
Oh...I've had it up to here!