Roy Choi Quotes

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.

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.

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

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

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

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

I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish.

I didn't emphasize my Jewishness because I wanted to. I just happen to have been raised in a family where everybody happened to talk like this, so why would I talk like somebody else?

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

My mother is a German who was brought up in the U.K. So, there is so much cross-cultural exposure I had as a child. But Mumbai is my city.

Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.

I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my father being French, it's like an East-West meeting in my house.

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

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

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 love my heritage both as someone who grew up as a Muslim and as an Indian - it's part of who I am and I would never deny it.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

I am myself of a mixed background.