Quotes About Heritage

My dad had a great record collection, which included some music from Mexico, and so I always loved it.

I love Mexico.

Growing up in Mexico, I know what real Mexican food is - and isn't.

People ask me all the time, 'What do you do for Cinco de Mayo?' And my honest answer is always, 'When I was growing up in Mexico, nothing. Really, nothing. It was a school day. It was totally normal.' But when I grew up and started going to San Diego and started drinking margaritas, that's when Cinco de Mayo celebrations started for me.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

My parents are from Mexico City.

I've always felt that Miami is part of my DNA.

I think just growing up in Miami, there's gumbo of different cultures that influence us.

Miami is one of these places where diversity is in our blood, where, you know, if you want to go have a Nicaraguan breakfast, a Cuban lunch, and an American diner dinner, you do.

I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

Growing up in Miami, being Cuban is integrated into our culture. When we greet anyone, we give them a kiss on the cheek.

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.

I'm Latina and Middle Eastern. Not a lot of people look like me, and I want to embrace all ethnic cultures and make them feel like they're included.

I think Middle Eastern hair is very resilient.

I come from a very middle-class family.

I come from a middle-class family in Kozhikode, Kerala.

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

I'm proud to come from the Midwest and that's where I'm comfortable at.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.