Quotes About Belonging

I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

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

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

A lot of people say things because I wasn't born here, but in my heart, I know that I am a true Puerto Rican champion.

I am a Puerto Rican. I could have been born on the moon, but I'm still Puerto Rican.

I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.

I'm half Puerto Rican.

I don't diet. I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away.

I'm Puerto Rican, but I represent everybody.

I'm such a true Puerto Rican.

My dad was born in Cuba and my mother's family is Puerto Rican. But my parents are both extremely proud to be American citizens, and they raised me to take pride in being from this country.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

Some people wanted me deported - as if you can be deported to Puerto Rico.

I don't think it's fair that you can say I'm not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn't born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican.

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

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

One of the things that concerns me is that so few people who go and get an education elsewhere... feel any real... pull for returning home.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

I think we're really hungry for family in America, especially when I feel like people are really pulled apart from their families.