Asks Quote by Malcolm X

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian,…

— Richard M. Nixon

Who does get to claim Americanness? You know, my brother was born in this country. And is he seen as American? So, I mean,…

— Lulu Wang

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever…

— George Foreman

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

— Martina Navratilova

“I am not 'African American' —I am black American.”

— John McWhorter

I have an upfront, sort of in-the-trenches knowledge of white people's trying to avoid their whiteness and replace it with something else. When I…

— W. Kamau Bell

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

— Whoopi Goldberg

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

— Lela Loren

What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.

— Camila Mendes

I've always said that my father is half black and half Venezuelan and my mother is Irish. But people don't understand. They can't fathom…

— Mariah Carey

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little…

— Tracy Morgan