Quotes About Culture

I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.

I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.

My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.

I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?

One generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

I understand if everyone looking at me is seeing a Jew and seeing me as a kind of 'other.' But I can't be expected to see myself that way. That is, to me, Jewish is the normal way to be; it's not a type of being.

If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly.

There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no arguing with either thing. I'm just Jewish.

I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

I used to think the whole world was Jewish.

You can't do more mama than Italian Jewish mama.

I have always had excellent cooperation with the Jewish community in Austria.

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

We are losing the Jewish people in the Diaspora.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.

Us Jews are nomadic people.