Mixed Background Quotes

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

Donald Trump is attacking President Obama's background. And I said, 'Wait a minute, Trump also is from a mixed background. He's half jack and half ass.'

I'm very much half city and half country boy.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

I am half Bengali and half Marathi.

It was quite strange that people were saying I wasn't Asian enough. It's like, 'Oh, you're not Asian enough to play an Asian role.' So what does that mean for people who come from mixed heritage? I grew up in Asia; I'm Malaysian.

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

Although I had a private education at secondary level, I went to a local primary school where I mixed with kids of all backgrounds.

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

Our vulnerability is that both blacks and whites can use our impossible racial authenticity against us. Both races can throw up our mixed background to challenge our authority to speak.

People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'

My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me - when I move, when I do everything - are Brazilian because my family is Brazilian, and my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese. But all the thinking in my life, all the treatment with people, I think I'm more from Spain. That's how I grew up.

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.

I grew up around a mix of a lot of people, so I got a lot of different perspectives. As a kid, I appreciated that.

I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I am myself of a mixed background.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

I grew up with my grandmother because my parents were making careers and didn't have much time for me. She was a highly religious Serbian Orthodox, spending most of her time in church. It's a great mix, and I use all these elements in my work.

I'm half French.

I'm a class mongrel.