American Quote by William T. Vollmann

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience…

— Dinaw Mengestu

You know, yeah, my dad is white - he's American. His family has been in this country for many, many, many years. And the…

— Rachel Zegler

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

— Xander Schauffele

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself…

— Jenny Zhang

The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of…

— Sunny Jain

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and…

— Malaak Shabazz

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there…

— Maya Lin

There is more racial integration in American life and many more people of color serving as elected officials and corporate leaders than there were…

— Martin Luther King III

I've grown up feeling very American but being constantly bothered by people - there's internalized racism and feeling weird about being second-generation.

— Kelela

I honestly realized that my dad was white when someone told me in middle school. They're like, 'Oh your dad's white?' I'm like, 'Oh,…

— Tamera Mowry

I think that every individual is a microcosm of the culture that they're born into. They reflect the anxieties, insecurities, and strengths of that…

— Haroon Moghul

I've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting…

— Charles Melton