Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Quotes

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

I'm a bit of a mongrel, really!

My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.

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

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing up I didn't know.

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

I just feel like a Filipina, a Filipino woman, and it just so happens that when I was growing up, I was very much an Australian, and I think you can be both.

Like so many people around the world, I consider myself to be of mixed nationality.

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.

I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.

I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I'm very mixed up, been to many different schools.

I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

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.

I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.

My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.

I'm mixed, and I'm proud of that.