Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 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.

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

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

I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was very blond-haired, white, and 'Lemonhead' was the name that they gave me.

I am a Canadian, a man and a Black man in that order.

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.

I always wanted my kids to be proud of their heritage.

I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

I don't really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like. I just feel like me.

I'm Indian and proudly so.

I have the Mexican blood. I'm proud to be Mexican.

I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.

I am a hardcore Bihari boy. I am born and brought up in Bihar, and for me, ethnicity is not a problem and is inbuilt in me.

I want to represent my color and ethnicity. To be proud of our heritages is really cool.

We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

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

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I am who I am, a Southie.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.