Nadiya Hussain Quotes

I'm pan-Latino, or whatever that phrase is. It's not a sexy phrase, but it is a sexy, cool thing. That's how I feel.

I am a bisexual Cuban-American woman, and I am so proud of it.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I love my brownness.

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

I am myself of a mixed background.

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

I'm Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I'm 100 different things meshed into one. I think that shows girls that uniqueness is beautiful. They can look at me on a magazine cover and see me in a movie and say that they have someone they can relate to.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.