Ethnic Background Quotes

My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to work with.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

My surname Volkanovski comes from my father's side, so I have many Macedonian supporters and I really appreciate it.

My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.

I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.

My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick - she couldn't even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high school was United Nations. I was fine with it, even though I identify as a black woman. People don't realize it hurts my feelings when someone looks at my hair or my eyes, and says, "But you're not actually black. You're black, but you're not black black, because your eyes are green." I'm like, "What? No, no, I'm definitely black." Even some of my closest friends have said that. It's been a bit touchy for me.

All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.

I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.

What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

I'm a multi-racial person - I'm black and white - and growing up in North Carolina, I've dealt with a lot of racism. Growing up as a kid, I've seen it. I've been through it in many forms and fashions.

My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws people for a loop. My mother's first husband is Mexican. That's where I got Lopez.

Being Indian-American, I have tremendous potential to grow facial hair.

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

I turned down a lot of work. I didn't want to ever feel defined by my ethnicity.

I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.

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