African american Quote by Russell Means

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

— Russell Means

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

— Russell Means

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

— Bobby Jindal

I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity…

— Hasan Minhaj

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm…

— Sherman Alexie

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

My grandparents on my fathers side come to America from Germany, so that made them, German-American. My grandparents on my mothers side came to…

— David Kreger

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

— Lela Loren

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

— Eric Balfour

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

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

— Toni Morrison

The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know… Anybody else... well where did…

— Cristian Machado