Martin Amis Quotes

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

We really wanted our characters to be very Latin-based because we've always been so proud of our roots.

In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

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.

… cultural pride can turn, too often, into an endeavor to normalize one's culture. The quest for identity can then become an exclusionary process - so that we define ourselves less by what we are FOR and more by whom we are AGAINST. When this happens, diversity turns quickly from a source of beauty to a cause of discord.

Every culture is different in terms of what is taboo and what is acceptable. I grew up in Singapore, where people are very mindful of that. One can see that as restriction or as consideration for a fellow person living within a shared environment.

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

Whatever ethnicity you are, yes, absolutely you have to be proud of who you are man. I am really really proud to be Asian, I got to say.

I want children to feel proud of their heritage.

There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

I've been taught always be nice to the lighting people - they're the people you make friends with straight away so that's what I do.

I am extremely proud of my heritage, and I would never use being Dutch as an excuse but rather an explanation of our cultural differences.

I have the Mexican blood. I'm proud to be Mexican.

I didn't know what to expect of real America. What shocked me was the diversity of it and how different every city is. But also just how polite and usually good-willed and optimistic most Americans are.

In India, you can just show up at a friend's house, and they will feed you; you can borrow someone's clothes and touch each other. In London, they would say, 'Oh, let's meet for coffee at 4:15, and we will talk about, I don't know, this play that we saw.'

I am, always have been, and always will be proud of my Nigerian heritage.

I love London. I love the variety, the entertainment, the restaurants and concerts. It's different from what we have in South America.

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

All you crazy white people "I'm American!", all you did was come out of your mother's pussy on American soil. That's it. That's it! What, you think you're better than somebody from France 'cause you came out of a pussy in Detroit?

My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye, but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me, to grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.