Ariel Dorfman Quotes

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.

I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix.

I am myself of a mixed background.

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

Deep down inside, I'm really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl's body. But I'm also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.

I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.

My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

I'm half Greek, half Australian.

I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.

I'm neither half white nor half Asian. I'm full both.

I'm half-Russian, half-Polish and all Jewish.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.

I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.