Maajid Nawaz Quotes

I love my heritage both as someone who grew up as a Muslim and as an Indian - it's part of who I am and I would never deny it.

I think I'm more European in personality.

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

I come from a Muslim family. The label 'Muslim' is one aspect of me, but it's not the only part of me.

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.

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

My mom has always been very open, very liberal. So I grew up with that, and I can appreciate everything that she did and went through and was exposed to.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.

My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

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.

I don't think Latino; I think like me. If that happens to be Latino, then I guess that's me. But it doesn't affect my comedy in any way.

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.

My parents are super westernized. My mom listens to western music, my dad was like a pub landlord so he properly embraced English life. But the truth is they both came from tiny villages in Sri Lanka.

I'm not completely Jewish, if you know what I mean. I know people want me to be. My father is Jewish. My mother isn't.

I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.

I was raised in Montreal, which is very multicultural, very liberal. Then I moved to New York.

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.