J. M. Coetzee Quotes

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

Europe has been in my bones.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.

I get that question almost more than any other. Once people feel a little comfortable, they're always like, 'So, what, uh, uh, what, um, what's your ethnicity?'

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

I feel Anglo-American.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

... a male person, including an Indian and excluding a person of Mongolian or Chinese race.

My father's family is German and Czech.