Tracie Bennett Quotes

I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

I grew up a Tamilian.

I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.

I feel that where I came from made me the actor that I am, and I wouldn't want to trade that with anything else.

I am extremely proud of my heritage, and I would never use being Dutch as an excuse but rather an explanation of our cultural differences.

I was raised in Montreal, which is very multicultural, very liberal. Then I moved to New York.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

I grew up in Sweden. It's a profoundly Americanized country. We have a strong tradition of Americana and always had non-dubbed American television, and embracing American culture a lot, so I always knew that I wanted to go to America.

The idea of ignoring your past, only to confront it later in life, is a familiar experience whether you come here from Hungary or French Canada or Ireland.

I only lived in Sudan until I was four years, so I cannot really relate to that. It is just a different lifestyle.

I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am. I'm a full-blooded Brazilian, with an entire extended family of Brazilians, but I was born and raised in the U.S.

American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.

A lot of people don't know that I'm actually half Indian.

My mother is a German who was brought up in the U.K. So, there is so much cross-cultural exposure I had as a child. But Mumbai is my city.

For me, being an 'American Latina' means identifying with and being influenced by both my American upbringing and my Latin heritage, and I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am.

I think my background, coming from Iran, which is a great country but is going through its share of troubles, really allows me to appreciate what we have here.

My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.

The writer, Ruth Jhabvala, livedin India but was German. My partner Ismail Merchant was from Bombay but was educated in England and he had a different view on the world. Probably they had to contend with some sort of Oregonian-ness in me that they didn't understand and didn't know where it was coming from.

Judaism is a big part of my background, obviously, and my reality.

As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

I grew up in an immigrant household with an Italian father who came to the U.S. when he was 15.

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

Most of the people that I learned and experienced jazz with have been with foreign white people, mostly from France. Excluding my family.