Michelle Williams Quotes

Europe has been in my bones.

I'm actually Hispanic, and my mother is Puerto Rican.

We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?'

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

I'm actually not from the United States. I'm from Uzbekistan.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

This is the country that lives in us .... There it must find its nutriment or die.

An Englishman

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

I'm Italian.

I'm a Chinese American.

I'm a Goan girl.

My husband is half Korean.

I don't care where people come from, but others are fascinated about where I come from.

My whole identity comes from Pakistan.

I could have had Spanish nationality, and I didn't take it.

I'm not American.

My lineage is partially Irish.

I was born in Sri Lanka.

I live in the U.S., but I'm from Brazil.

My dad's Scottish, and I always used to say I was, too.