Accent Quote by Dinaw Mengestu

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids…

— Joel Kinnaman

Although my family is originally from Jamaica, I grew up in a diverse community in south London. As my parents were immigrants they made…

— Ainsley Harriott

My grandmothers are Irish-American and German-American; my grandfather is from the Caribbean. My father is African-American. My family looked funny. I just started naturally…

— Sarah Jones

I was lucky to grow up in a culturally diverse area knowing a lot of different people from all different walks of life.

— Anjelah Johnson

My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a…

— Fred Armisen

As our company grew and we began growing our family stateside - with heritages ranging from Liberian and Sierra Leonean to Irish, Indian, Swedish,…

— Richelieu Dennis

I come from a multicultural family. My wife's Thai. My children are half-Asian, half-Scottish; we're all immigrants.

— Jimmy Barnes

My family, I can say, is pretty Americanized. My son has lived pretty much all his life in Chicago, my daughter was born in…

— Toni Kukoc

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border…

— Dinaw Mengestu

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who I am.…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

When my mom, Mercedes, and her younger sister, Juanita, first came from Puerto Rico, they were the youngest in the family. They had to…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I was born and raised in Chicago, but lived for a while in Mexico, the son of immigrants. We lived in Mexico, part time,…

— Ruben Gallego