Brother Quote by Karen Civil

I grew up in the Haitian culture. Everything we did was from the Haitian culture.

— Sony Michel

I grew up surrounded by both Haitian and Japanese culture.

— Naomi Osaka

I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until…

— Hong Chau

When I was 13 I made a youth national team and we went on a trip to Europe. It was the first time that…

— Jesse Marsch

I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

— Wyclef Jean

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

— Stefflon Don

I learned Portuguese, English and Spanish. It was great for me. My family always forced me to speak in every language.

— Vicente Luque

I learned Spanish as my second language from middle school through high school. I grew up volunteering at homeless shelters and tutoring kids of…

— Eric Nam

My parents both worked full-time flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint, and my grandmother looked after us. English was her second language, so…

— Kameron Hurley

I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a…

— Zoe Kazan

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit…

— Alexander Dreymon

I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues and just…

— Cristian Machado