W. Kamau Bell Quotes

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

I have Asian friends - second generation - and I am the worst in terms of being in touch with my heritage.

We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

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 never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.

I'm a Native American actress.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was like to be different, to always want to fit in and never feel like you ever could.

My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.