Anjelah Johnson Quotes

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who I am. Because of my diverse background, I think I can relate to many different people, different stories, and different communities.

From 'Fonejacker,' multiculturalism has been a big part of my repertoire.

I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.

All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture - art and music - includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.

I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures together just through my everyday life.

I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix.

I love my heritage! I have my mother, who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'

People and their cultures perish in isolation, but they are born and reborn in contact with other men and women, with man and woman or another culture, another creed, another race.

The question really isn't whether I'm American, Russian, Iranian, Azerbaijani, or anything else. I've been shaped by all these people and cultures and I feel quite comfortable among all of them

I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.

Literally everything good about this culture comes from mixing.

I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.

I've got that Mexican blood in me.

I'm a woman of color, but I have so many different cultures inside of me.

I want to represent my color and ethnicity. To be proud of our heritages is really cool.

I'm neither half white nor half Asian. I'm full both.

'Entropy' will be a kaleidoscope of thought processes and my identity as an Indian who grew up in California.