American Quote by Hasan Minhaj

You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone…

— Russell Means

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.

— Bobby Jindal

I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here. I'm American.…

— Hasan Minhaj

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

— Toni Morrison

To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like, 'Oh, I'm…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing…

— Vidya Vox

“On identity politics: “The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that’s what we have to put up with. I think that any person that’s in…

— Scott Eyman

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone…

— Frank McCourt

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

— Dalia Mogahed

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States…

— John Wayne

I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles.

— Tiya Sircar

Growing up in the U.S., I'd siloed off my identities. While I was an Indian at home, I was an American at school. I…

— Sid Sriram