Kate del Castillo Quotes

I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

I've always been more in touch with my Ecuadorian side. I speak Spanish.

I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

I am very proud to be a Latina, because that's also something that makes me very unique.

The one thing I won't do is sacrifice my Indian identity in my music, my clothing choices. It's something I tried to hide growing up, and I would never do that again because it's such a big part of me and I'm very proud of it.

The fact is I do feel very Spanish, like when I'm talking to my wife and daughter in Spanish at two in the afternoon. I even think in Spanish when I get angry!

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep their own language just to bring something else, something different, and show a different vision of the world, actually. And that's why I'm trying to keep my language.

I'm still ghetto. That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture.

I lost my accent pretty quickly, so everyone assumes I was born and raised in America. But I'm very much still in touch with my Filipino roots. That will never go away.

I'm full Hispanic.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.

I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

I had an Indian face, but I never saw it as Indian, in part because in America the Indian was dead. The Indian had been killed in cowboy movies, or was playing bingo in Oklahoma. Also, in my middle-class Mexican family indio was a bad word, one my parents shy away from to this day. That's one of the reasons, of course, why I always insist, in my bratty way, on saying, Soy indio! - "I am an Indian!"

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.