Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

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

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant. I am a Russian American. But until recently I haven't focused so much on those parts of my identity. I've always thought of myself simply as a normal, unhyphenated American.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

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.

Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.

My children don't look Hispanic.

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

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.

There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

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

From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.