Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

I am Chinese, but I am thoroughly American.

I'm Italian, but I'm also a little Brazilian: Pirlonho, if you like.

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

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.

I don't even know if I'm British any more. I'm transatlantic, I'm European.

I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

I'm just as happy to be Polish as I am to be German.

I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

The question really isn't whether I'm American, Russian, Iranian, Azerbaijani, or anything else. I've been shaped by all these people and cultures and I feel quite comfortable among all of them

I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.

I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here. I'm American. At the same time, like most first-generation kids, I have this other identity to another country back home, which is India.

My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's why embracing these two cultures is important to me.

American histories were the same; they had these mad ideas about how Parliament worked, or what people really meant when they said A, B, or C. All my life, I felt simultaneously deracinated and rooted in both places, and now it's my greatest strength: I'm culturally bilingual.

I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.

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.

I am 100% Congolese and 100% Belgian. I am very proud of it.

Culturally, I'm not 100 percent Korean. I'm very mixed and very open.

When it comes to Eurasians, are we not allowed to embrace either one of our cultures we feel more attached to? Or decide within ourselves that I am Asian and I am proud to be Asian?

I've got that Mexican blood in me.

When people ask me where I'm from, I say I'm from the Sudan. But when they ask what my hometown is, I say London. It's where I lived, and it's where my whole family lived.