Alex Haley Quotes

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.

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 do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I am a proud Englishman, having been born and raised in London. However, I am just as proud of my family's Irish heritage and my affinity and connection with the country.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

I've always felt very English.

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.

I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

I'm Irish, I'm from New York, and I definitely have issues.

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

A great silence has fallen upon the real soul of this nation.

I don't really want the kind of Englishness that I have represented.

When Pakistan beat England at cricket, my Pakistani cousins remind me how English and British I am. When they say, 'You're one of the Queen's advisers,' for them it's, 'Wow - anything's possible in the U.K.'

When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.

I feel more Asian than anything.

I always consider myself Syrian. I just happen to be born in Canada.