Monday, February 28, 2011

"[Quotes]" by Zoe Saldana


When I go to the D.R., the press in Santo Domingo always asks, "¿Qué te consideras, dominicana o americana?" (What do you consider yourself, Dominican or American?) I don't understand it, and it's the same people asking the same question. So I say, time and time again, "Yo soy una mujer negra." ("I am a black woman.") [They go,] "Oh, no, tú eres trigueñita." ("Oh no, you are 'dark skinned'") I'm like, "No! Let's get it straight, yo soy una mujer negra." ("I am a black woman.")


-ZOE SALDANA

I love that she gets that just because you speak a different language, does not seperate you from the rest of us. That somewhere down the line we are all cut from the same cloth.

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