Eric Nam Quotes

Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.

My African-American friends thought it was cool that I was racing. It's not like we had any role models out there to look up to, so everyone understood I was doing something very different.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

Up you mighty race!

If everyone in your class has heroes, and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.

I'm Puerto Rican, but I represent everybody.

You know, one of the ways we adapted to not being free was to think that our group identity was again, the way we were being black, and being down with the cards. That was the way we were going to get it. Unity was everything.

I don't know if you can hear me, but I have heard you. I heard your willingness to change. Your force, your hope... and I want to tell you how grateful I am. Thank you, thank you, thank you, people of France.

When you're 27 million strong, no one can tell you that you don't belong or expect you to just move along.

I still enjoy a lot of support from the black community.

I love my brownness.

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

When we go and cheer Cynthia Erivo on in 'The Color Purple,' it's because we've elected her to be our voice. She sings 'I'm Here' for all of us.

Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity.

I don't believe in politics. I only believe in my people. And my people - the ones that follow me - are Latinos. I would go with them till the end of the world.

I vowed to never be on camera down-talking another black man.