Carmen Ejogo Quotes

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

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

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who I am. Because of my diverse background, I think I can relate to many different people, different stories, and different communities.

MP is like my second home. It's a culturally inclined state.

I grew up surrounded by both Haitian and Japanese culture.

I'm with expanding in my culture, from the Dominican Republic all the way to Cape Verde. Please believe that.

My parents weren't cultured people.

I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which isn't true. There is a very diverse group of people in both groups in terms of income, objectives in life, aspirations, cultural wants, habits, all the things that make us unique Americans.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We don't talk about our strengths. I mean, having so many diverse people in this country from all aspects of all over the world, and we don't use that. I think we should talk about who we are - that melting pot that we've become.

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.