Hyphenated Identity Quotes

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

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

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 just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

I am first Prime Minister of this country of neither all together English nor French origin .... I am determined to bring about the Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration.

For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.

I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity am I?

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

I'm half-Russian, half-Polish and all Jewish.

As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?'

I feel very much rooted in being Egyptian, and I also feel very rooted in being a guy from New Jersey.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

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

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.

I'm not trying to prove how Mexican I am or how American I am. I'm proud to be both.

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.

I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker.

History … liberated me from a past that was no longer relevant. I was ready to explore the American side of my hyphenated psyche. I'm still doing it

Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people don't get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. That's a good thing.

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.