Mika Quotes

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

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.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.

My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.

Both my parents were born in the Philippines. My dad is full Filipino, but my mom looks a little mixed, and her mom's name is Estelita Coquico.

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

My father is from the village of Beranci, Macedonia, and my mother is from Greece.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.

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 think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

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

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

I feel Anglo-American.

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.