Hasan Minhaj Quotes

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

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

I feel Anglo-American.

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

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 just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

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

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

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

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

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.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

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.

I believe my soul isn't entirely German because my home is so disorderly.

I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.

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.

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'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

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.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.