Claire Messud Quotes

One of these days every person in Canada will be a Canadian.

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

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

A Canadian nationality—not French-Canadian, not British-Canadian, nor Irish-Canadian: patriotism rejects the prefix ... is what we should look forward to.

I'm happy being Canadian and I'm proud of where I come from. So I'll keep my passport.

All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture - art and music - includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

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

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.

Yes, I'm a proud Latina woman, but before that - before the color of my skin, my accent, anything - I'm an actress, singer and dancer. I'm something bigger than just my background.

I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian.

I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.

I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

One of the unique features of China is that, notwithstanding the fact that it has a population of 1.3 billion, around 92% regard themselves as Han Chinese. This is quite different from the world's other most populous countries, such as India, the U.S. and Indonesia, which are ethnically diverse.

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.'