“The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and … most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood.” LittlesPersonsRealAbilityWhiteRaceBloodInfluencePositionAmountDirectProportionProminenceMulattoes Book:The Conquest of a Continent Source: The Conquest of a Continent
“I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I've dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.” PeopleKnowsLooksWholeWhiteIdentityFitConflictDefinitionsWhole LifeAfrican AmericanRacial IdentityMulattoes Author:Mat Johnson
“(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.” PeopleFeelsHomeEarthChristianTogetherJobsThreeHeavenFreedomRaceWonderfulMercyPrejudiceJewParadiseImmigrantsQuartersDescribingBrazilEnchantingCreoleSeventh HeavenMulattoes Author:Stefan Zweig
“The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.” MenLongSongFatherSoundWaterMusicHairReturnMusicianSpringCrossesDepthEdgesFishesCurseOld ManVillageMidnightMistressOur FatherViolinDrippingLong HairPerditionMulattoes Author:Jacques Roumain
“America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that our Hispanic neighbor is going to marry our daughter. America has nothing like the Spanish vocabulary for miscegenation. Mulatto, mestizo, Creole - these Spanish and French terms suggest, by their use, that miscegenation is a fact of life. America has only black and white. In eighteenth-century America, if you had any drop of African blood in you, you were black.” IfsIdeasFactsUseAmericaBlackTermWhiteBloodCenturyDiversityDaughterWideNeighborBlack And WhiteVocabularyFacts Of LifeHispanicOur DaughterCreoleMiscegenationMulattoes Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.” IfsEnemyTeacherDyingNeededHatedNo LoveMulattoes Book:A Lesson Before Dying Source: A Lesson Before Dying
“The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto — not just as regards students but also professors. Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.” PeopleShouldTodayLeftBlackDoorsStudentsTearsColorFitRegardPaintWorkersUniversityProfessorsFlexiblePeasantsMulattoes Author:Che Guevara