Mike Colter Quotes

What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.

New York is like a melting pot: so many different people, so many different cultures.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.

I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed to all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, fueling my personal interests in global issues.

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

There are men of eighteen different languages; they are scattered here and there upon the [Hudson] river.

The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that.

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.

I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.