Cary Fukunaga Quotes

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

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

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

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Geraldo Rivera to probe vitally important issues of the day, starting with whether I'm Hispanic or Latino.

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

Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

I am neither a Serb nor a Bulgarian, I am a South Slav.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

I'm an L.A. girl, a Cali girl - a Cali girl from Connecticut.

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

I may be brown on the outside, but on the inside, I'm all American.

I'm full Hispanic.

You catch any white man off guard in here right now, you catch him off guard and ask him what he is, he doesn't say he's an American. He either tells you he's Irish, or he's Italian, or he's German, if you catch him off guard and he doesn't know what you're up to. And even though he was born here, he'll tell you he's Italian. Well, if he's Italian, you and I are African even though we were born here.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

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.

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I'm of Arab background.

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I look Asian. I need to go to Japan.

I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.