Sasha Velour Quotes

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

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.

We keep a Jewish household and are raising our daughters Jewish.

I'm so proud to be a Latina. Growing up and being Latina and growing up with my father and getting to do a lot of the Hispanic traditions, I loved it.

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.

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

As a child, I didn't even realize I was Chinese. I was Singaporean, but my identity was wrapped up in the culture I was experiencing every day.

I don't feel that Jewish people have a class.

I am an ordinary woman from a Tamil family.

I want my daughter to grow up with memories of home-cooked meals, just as I did as one of seven children by Moroccan parents.

Someone said to me a long time ago, 'You're a drag queen,' and at the time I was a little like... hello? But then I realized over the years that I actually am.

I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.

My hair story has been unique because my mom's a German Jew, so her hair is way different than my hair. She was always learning on my hair growing up, but I would sit there for hours, and she did learn how to braid hair. Early on, it was a lot of tears while my mom was braiding my hair.

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos.

Looking back now, I can see that my dad was a real fighter. A lot of people thought, 'Why don't you keep the Jewish stuff quiet?' They were anti-Semitic Jews. People who were afraid. People who came here and made it and anglicized themselves and didn't want to associate with their past.

The story of my life is the Chicano experience personified.

I consider myself half Spanish.

I grew up Mexican.

Admitting that we ourselves are bar mitzvah boys is our way of letting non-Jews as well as Jews in the audience know that everything we're doing is meant in good fun; we're having fun with our background and don't want to be taken in the wrong way.

My parents always wanted me to learn about my culture and tried to make me eat Vietnamese food.