Mel Rodriguez Quotes

Yes, I have an Australian wife; she is half Bengali, half British.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

I consider myself half Spanish.

I notice I have both African and Belgian characteristics.

I could always talk about being a Latino and having a Mexican mom and a Honduran dad and being from Honduras. That was always an easy go-to place. But on the other hand, it was a crutch.

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

I grew up thinking of myself as an American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in our home, as an Iranian. So if there's any such thing as dual loyalty, then I have it - at least culturally.

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

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

We are African in origin and American in birth.

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

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

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.