Pete Buttigieg Quotes

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

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.

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

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

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

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 think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.

When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

I love my heritage! I have my mother, who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

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.

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.