Quotes About Culture

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

I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up.

In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high and low art mix easily.

I am myself of a mixed background.

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.

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.

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to be black or Asian in America and not necessarily knowing what it's like, that's when everything gets mixed up.

I feel like I've mixed my Middle Eastern and Western loves together.

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 came from a council estate in the '80s which was predominantly black, white or Indian. Being Chinese mixed race we instantly stuck out.

And I always talk about how when you're mixed race, you often get told you're this, you're not that' or you're not enough that, you're not Asian enough, you're not white enough.'

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

The way people grow up, it shapes the way they think and the way they do certain things. I grew up with a mixed population, white, Hispanic and black. I feel all people are equal.

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

I love mixing Indian and Western.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

There's a mixture of pride and self-loathing in Jewish female comedians that I've always admired and wanted to bring into Jinkx.