Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

Montreal is just so multicultural and ethnic and diverse, and it's what makes us special. I say 'us' like I still live there, but I still do feel like a Montrealer.

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

I am not an African. I am an American.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.

Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents.

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

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'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

I'm proud of being Hispanic.

I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

I am a New Yorker.