Montesquieu Quotes

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

I don't really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like. I just feel like me.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I am a Canadian, a man and a Black man in that order.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

I feel Anglo-American.

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I've always felt very English.