Quotes About Belonging

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

I've always been more in touch with my Ecuadorian side. I speak Spanish.

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

I'm a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it's given me help. It's given me a push, and I'm very proud of my Spanish heritage.

I consider myself half Spanish.

Spanish is my first language.

I could have had Spanish nationality, and I didn't take it.

Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish.

I am flattered Serbia are interested in me and for the great effort they are making. But I am Spanish and my desire is to play for Spain.

A lot of people say I'm not Mexican because I don't speak a lot of Spanish or am there a lot, but the United States is where it's at. Mexico's in my blood, in my DNA. It's in my kids' DNA.

I've got Spanish grandparents and I've got a connection with Spain. But I consider myself English and I want to play for England.

My parents raised my brother and me with two cultures, American and Spanish, and I feel a true sense of belonging to both.

When I was younger, there was that desire to be cool and to fit in and to look a certain way. And I was quite an introverted kid who wrote plays in her spare time, so I didn't feel very cool.

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.

I was born in Spain, I know the culture there, and lived most of my life there, but I have Malian origins too. For me it's a beautiful thing that I can have both. I can be in both countries, speak the language, blend in in two cultures.

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.