"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."
| AQUARIUS
(Jan. 21-Feb.19)
Lou Diamond Philips
"Many times I've been able to play the hero, he's an American. ... And the face of the American hero is changing. And I still do ethnic roles because, first of all, I'm ethnic and I can do these and they're fun..."
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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." | ARIES
(March 21 - April 20)
Mariah Carey"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."
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The Rock"I'm very proud of what I am. That'll never change. We can change a lot of things. I cannot change. I can't change the color of my skin, and neither can you."
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Lenny Kravitz
"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."
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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!"
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Devon Aoki
"My mom is German-English. I grew up with my mom, but I can't escape the way I look and my whole life [because of that] I've had a strong sense of self because of it."
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VIRGO
(Aug. 24 - Sept. 23)
Cameron Diaz
"All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them.”
| LIBRA
(Sept. 24 - Oct. 23) 
Sharon Leal
"I started off with my first Broadway show, 'Miss Saigon,' and it doesn't get any more Asian than that. I won the Asian Excellence Award and I know people were like, "Huh?"
| SCORPIO
(Oct. 24 - Nov. 22)
Lisa Bonet
“I had absolutely no idea where I belonged in life, I mean position and in school…I don’t know, growing up is so hard…It was really weird,” she told Ebonymagazine. “because, like you know, the Black kids would call me ‘Oreo,” and I just didn’t feel totally at home and accepted with all those, you know, White rich people.” | SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 23- DEC. 21
Benjamin Bratt
"Too often, the industry tends to generalize the character's ethnic makeup," Bratt explained to the New York Daily News. "They don't ever really take into account that millions of people in this country are made up of many different cultural backgrounds."
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