Ethnic Belonging Quotes

When Pakistan beat England at cricket, my Pakistani cousins remind me how English and British I am. When they say, 'You're one of the Queen's advisers,' for them it's, 'Wow - anything's possible in the U.K.'

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

I was born in Jamaica, my whole family's Jamaican, and they always give me a hard time for being the least Jamaican member of the family. But I think it's their fault for naming me Sarah.

I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

My grandmother would always tell me that I was hers, that I was Mexican. That was her role. It was not my teacher's role to tell me I was Mexican. It was my teacher's role to tell me I was an American.

This country does belong to white people. America was, until this last generation, a white country.

Being a Jew and an Israeli are inseparable things.

During the war, a battle was fought here, not only for the creation of a new Yugoslavia, but also a battle for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign republic. To some generals and leaders their position on this was not quite clear. I never once doubted my stance on Bosnia. I always said that Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot belong to this or that, only to the people that lived there since the beginning of time.

I know what it means to be Jewish, and I don't think someone who wasn't Jewish would really understand.

There was always a struggle with being Asian and not being Asian enough. It's going to be down to me to own my race.

My soul is still Irish.

Every year, my family and I would go visit my mom's family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.

I feel more Asian than anything.

A lot of Jewish kids do identify with us.

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

When I'm in L.A., I'm part of the Irish community out there, and I just love it.

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

I belong to the Bohri community.