Hyphenated American Quotes

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant. I am a Russian American. But until recently I haven't focused so much on those parts of my identity. I've always thought of myself simply as a normal, unhyphenated American.

I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.

Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

Everyone who thinks I'm not Mexican simply because I was born in the United States is wrong.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American