Edward Hirsch Quotes

My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on the radio and being quite shocked that he had a South African accent. I didn't know there were any South African poets.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

I feel Anglo-American.

I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

As a child, I didn't even realize I was Chinese. I was Singaporean, but my identity was wrapped up in the culture I was experiencing every day.

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.

I'm a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it's given me help. It's given me a push, and I'm very proud of my Spanish heritage.

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

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

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.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.