Hari Kondabolu Quotes

I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

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

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

I am myself of a mixed background.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico.

With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.

I'm a first-generation American. My parents are from Nigeria. I had this weird last name that looked Japanese, and then people would see me and go, 'Oh. You're not Japanese.'

My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.

There's so many Chinese or Asian Americans that were either born in another country like I was and raised in America or born in America and raised in America. They're normal Americans, and they just happen to have a different heritage.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

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.

Every race is totally different.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

I feel Anglo-American.

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.