American Quote by Alex Wagner

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.

— Elizabeth McGovern

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself…

— Jenny Zhang

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have…

— Winston Churchill

My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and…

— Julianne Moore

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

— Lela Loren

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

— Xander Schauffele

I've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting…

— Charles Melton

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there…

— Maya Lin

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

— Giancarlo Esposito

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and…

— Eugene Jarecki