CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)

Alicia Keys
 

"I love my heritage! I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African."

Rashida Jones


"People still say things to me like, 'Oh my god, you're black? I would've never guessed that.' And I just think, I can't help your ignorance. There are bi-racial people who look like me or who look like Alicia Keys or who look like Halle Berry. I'm so proud to be so many things."

"I have a mother who is 100 percent Irish who raised me from my birth and who is my best friend. So if I were to say that I'm Black only, that would be negating everything she is. So when people ask, I say I'm Black, Venezuelan and Irish, because that's who I am."

 

(May 22- June 21)

"My mom sat me down and said, 'Look, I'm black. I'm West Indian and African-American. Your father's Jewish and he's white. I want you to be proud of both sides. You're just as much one as the other. But society says you're black.' She taught me to be proud of what you are. Know that you are both. Embrace it."
 

Derek Jeter
 

"People didn't know what race I was. Most people thought I was Spanish, so I'd go up to hit and be on deck and people'd be speaking Spanish to me. I had no idea what they were saying!"

 

(July 24 - Aug. 23)


Barack Obama

"I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather....It’s a story that hasn’t made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts – that out of many, we are truly one."

Cassie

"When I was growing up, I wasn’t confused, I knew exactly what I was," Cassie told Complex magazine. "I’m a little melting pot..."

(Sept. 24 - Oct. 23)


S

For a lot of people with multicultural backgrounds and African-Americans, you always feel like we are the underdogs. When you take something as huge as our president and it is someone who looks like you, it gives you a lot of hope for things you want to do for yourself and your children. It's really inspiring to witness Barack Obama's rise. I am so excited."

"According to the casting world, I'm a black actress," Ross told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "But I always say that I'm a woman of color--several colors, because I'm black and Jewish. And that's been a great blessing in my life."