Quotes About Identity

'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.

My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.

I do know that when I started, there weren't very many Latina plus-size models. For a long time, with my look and my body type, I felt like there wasn't a place for me.

Just because you are Latino does not mean you can't be global.

I grew up in a small Latino community that was very masculine-driven.

Everyone has a Latino inside them.

A Latino actor can't play this and a Latino actor can't play that because they're Latino.

I don't think Latino; I think like me. If that happens to be Latino, then I guess that's me. But it doesn't affect my comedy in any way.

Latinos can do anything.

I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos.

I remember asking my mum when I was about 13, 'Why are my brothers and sister so much older than me?' And she just said, 'You were a mistake.' And I laughed.

The 4-year-old me was getting laughed in school at for being too dark.

At various points in my own life, I have been laughed at scathingly for calling myself black.

See, I didn't have a big and huge launch as a star-kid would have.

Obviously, I'm not a Neanderthal. I do do laundry. I am a human being.

I am not Laura Kuenssberg and I'm never going to be.

My real name is Lauren.

I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'

There's only one Lawrence Dallaglio and there's only one James Haskell.

Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.

If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

All my life, I call myself wanting to be a lawyer because of Clair Huxtable. But the real dream was to be an actress.

I didn't want to be fireman. I didn't want to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or president. I didn't want to be any of those things the kids go through when they're young and growing up, and, 'Hey, I want to do this.'