Quotes About Ethnicity

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

I have an easy way to explain the war. It's a Croatian defending his country and a Serb attacking a Croatian country. With anyone who has a problem with understanding what's going on, that is the easiest way to understand it.

I turned down a lot of work. I didn't want to ever feel defined by my ethnicity.

I am definitely a person of color.

Obviously I descend from Africa.

Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies.

I know how a Manipuri is different from a Mizo or someone from Shillong. It's culturally very different... the food is also very different, and so is the language and dialect.

I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.

Trump's pardon of Arpaio may not get as much attention as Russian influence or Trump's apparent obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation. But to me, as a woman of color, it is a clear abuse of power for the U.S. president to pardon a sheriff who targeted people for arrest because of their ethnicity.

Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration—a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself. On the contrary, America in their eyes was a land of unsurpassed blessing. It was a nation of which they were proud and happy to become citizens.

They can't find the heart," he said, voice as unemotional as his face. The light was strong enough that I could see that his eyes were blue rather than just pale. He had a summer tan, light gold, but better than I tanned. It seemed wrong that the blond, blue-eyed WASP tanned darker than I did with my mother's black hair and brown eyes. I was half Hispanic—shouldn't I tan darker than white-bread boy?

I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, who issued an extermination order (Vernichtungsbefehl): "Within the German boundaries every Herero, whether found with or without a rifle, with or without cattle, shall be shot. . . . "Signed The Great General of the Mighty Kaiser, von Trotha.

The rules of perception in show business were broken: if they're Black then it's a gang; if Italian it's the mob; but if they're Jewish then it's a coincidence and you should never speak about it. — Dave Chappelle (Never say never. — Dom Mascara) Contract negotiation is like braces: it sucks the entire time and then as soon as you get them off, you forget you ever had them. Richard Sherman

I don't know about this," Cirello says. "What you don't know?" "Like why here?" Cirello asks, looking around. "All this empty space. Parking lot, a construction site …" "You scared, white?" "I'm not white, I'm Greek," Cirello says. "You see that movie, 300? Those were Greeks." "Didn't show that at V-Ville. Too gay.

People don't usually go off decapitating each other or committing mass murder just because they hate people in another group. These things happen because soul-dead political leaders are in a struggle for power and use ethnic violence as a tool in that struggle. —David Brooks

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

Eugénie, all refugees are not Jews. Not even all Jews are Jews. And many of whom you wouldn't believe it are Jews. I even knew a Jewish Negro once. He was a terribly lonely man. The only thing he loved was Chinese food. That's how life is.

I was inclined to think him Jewish," she wrote; she "considered his animus to be prompted only by his racial self-consciousness.

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a label than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

What are you called? Georgette. How are you called? Jacob. That's a Flemish name. American too. You're not Flamand? No, American. Good, I detest Flamands.