Blake Griffin Quotes

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

I look like I'm Chinese or Thai or Japanese - very different.

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

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.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

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

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

Europe has been in my bones.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

My features are completely ethnic.

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

I feel Anglo-American.

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

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

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

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

I'm one-fourth Tatar and three-fourths Bashkirian.

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