Auli'i Cravalho Quotes

Moana is definitely a Disney character, which is something that I totally love. She's totally bad butt: really awesome. I think she really embodies it because I, as someone who has grown up, been born and raised on the island of Hawaii - so, the Big Island - I love my culture.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.

The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

I feel like I've started to create my own culture of being a voice for something, and that's what people want to know about. I love that because I am a woman and because I a rap, and I look the way I look, I can connect with the demographic of people who feel like they have a voice in me.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

I'm a Native American actress.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

When you talk about me as a fighter, I like being known as a Mexican fighter. I think 'Mexican' or 'Hispanic' should be mentioned.

When I asked myself what I'd want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was 'relatable.'

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

For once in my life, I wanted to flaunt my Asian side instead of hiding it to fit as somebody else... 'Crazy Rich Asians' made me want to get in touch with my roots, instead of running away from them.

'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.

I think it's amazing that I can go out there and be myself, and the fact that I'm carrying Puerto Rico on my back a little bit is such an honor.

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

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.