Helen Thomas 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.

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

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

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

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

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.

I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

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 think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

I'm proud of being Hispanic.

I am not an African. I am an American.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.

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

I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.

My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

My family's from Eastern Europe.