Eddie Huang 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 love my heritage!

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

I feel Anglo-American.

A lot of people say I'm not Mexican because I don't speak a lot of Spanish or am there a lot, but the United States is where it's at. Mexico's in my blood, in my DNA. It's in my kids' DNA.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

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

Europe has been in my bones.

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

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.

I think everyone is kind of an immigrant somehow, and I wasn't raised in an American society at home. My household was a Jamaican household, so I got all my traditions, all my roots and culture intact, so I'm able to support both countries.

I hold both of them with equal amounts of pride. I feel just as strongly and equally Mexican as I do American.

I don't think Ireland has really embraced me, but it is not really for me to say. Obviously, people shouldn't embrace me just because I'm Irish, but it is where I'm from. I'm extremely proud to be Irish.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

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

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.