Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

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

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

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

I'm a Chinese American.

I may be brown on the outside, but on the inside, I'm all American.

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

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.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

I'm of Arab background.

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

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 proud of being Hispanic.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

I am not an African. I am an American.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

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.

The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.

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

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

I may be born in the U.K., but nobody takes away from the fact that I'm an Arab, and I'm proud to be Arab.