I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.