Quotes About Heritage

Though I'm Punjabi, I'm often mistaken to be a Mexican or Spaniard.

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.

Ethnically I am a mix of many, many, many things.

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

I've inherited so much culture, beauty, and love, and I'm the perfect mix of Philomena.

I am myself of a mixed background.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

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

My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.

My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.

You're trying to grow up, and you don't want to be like your parents, and that gets mixed up with being Korean... They brought their values from Korea, and I accepted them because I didn't know anything more. But as I grow older, I feel more Korean every year; it's very strange.

A lot of people decide, if you're mixed, you're black. And so they try to force you to choose a culture.

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.

I'm mixed, and I'm proud of that.

I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

In Hawaii, where I'm from, I'm Hapa Haole. It's pretty much if you're mixed blood or have two different ethnicities or even more, you're considered Hapa. It really means half but now it just means mixed.

I've always felt mixed race. Or as my music teacher said during a lesson: 'You are a mulatto.' I always felt there were white people, black, and then people like me in the middle.

Mixed people - people of color - we've always been here. But we are really entering a time in which we are proud of our heritage. Proud to say, I'm not one or the other. I'm both.' And that's beautiful.

Being mixed race in Britain in the '80s and '90s, there just weren't loads of people who looked like me.