Melanie Martinez Quotes

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

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity am I?

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 feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.

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

I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

My cultural identity is obviously a huge part of my design aesthetic.

There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.

I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been a part of my life, ever since I was a kid.

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud of my British side.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.

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