Quotes About Ethnicity

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Black and Hispanic men are at least twice as likely as whites to batter their wives and girlfriends.195* One 2005 study found that Hispanic women were nine times more likely than white women to report domestic violence.196 Blacks are 8.4 times more likely than whites to kill their spouses.197

Non-whites promote diversity because they profit from it. It increases their opportunities at the expense of whites.

It is only a matter of time before this gives rise to an increasingly explicit white racial consciousness.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Ethnic differences are the very essence of cultural diversity and national creativity.

Had he himself ever felt Korean inside, for example? How would he know? Wouldn't it just feel like . . . himself? Whatever he'd felt, it was probably not what Scott felt. But also, he was Korean American, not Korean, a distinction he had never been able to explain sufficiently to the white people in his life so far,

Frederick claimed to be tired of looking into blue eyes and encouraged not only French, German and Polish immigrants but Greeks and other Mediterraneans to come; he had an immigration office set up in Venice and considered building a mosque in Berlin to attract Turks.

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

Supporting Celtic, waving a tricolour because your parents are Irish - that's a valid culture.

In every country and region, there are practices and ways of living and culture that have been handed down from ancestors. Naturally, I feel that these should be respected.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

There are plenty of Latina actresses that no one's ever heard of... Some are really brown, some are light-skinned, and some look like they're Caucasian, but it's like we only want to identify with a certain kind of look and celebrate that under the guise that this is a 'Latina actress.'

I think the fact that we are trying to get as many young black and ethnic coaches involved in the game through campaigns to encourage that are important.