Marcela Valladolid Quotes

The one thing I won't do is sacrifice my Indian identity in my music, my clothing choices. It's something I tried to hide growing up, and I would never do that again because it's such a big part of me and I'm very proud of it.

Unfortunately, I don't look as Latin as I am. I get called a white guy a lot, but I am very proud of my heritage. I try my hardest to bring honor to my Mexican roots. Latin people are very passionate and loyal, and I will always remember who I am and where I come from.

Our people live in a limbo culture that is not quite Indian and not quite White either …. If you can get each person to be proud of himself, little by little, you can get the whole tribe to be proud.

I feel like it has been a journey throughout the years to be accepting of my culture - I always felt different and not as accepting of it.

The stories I always see about a first-generation kid trying to erase where they came from, or trying to just be white, I would watch those shows or movies and I was like, 'I don't get this.' This isn't how I feel.

I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

You have to want to be Chicano to be Chicano.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

The boys know they're from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I'm looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture... but I'm doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind me, and that's the best thing I can do.

Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me and taught me a different way of looking at things - I was always different from the people I went to school with, and I learned to embrace that.

I'm with expanding in my culture, from the Dominican Republic all the way to Cape Verde. Please believe that.

My blood is Indian. I don't need tablas in my music to prove that.

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud of my British side.

One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.