Ethnic Quotes

Yugoslavian troops did not enter Albania. On the contrary, there were 6,000 ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists -- very well armed -- trying to infiltrate into Kosovo. - Nebojsa Vujovic

You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough. - Nia Vardalos

You're Hispanic. You speak Spanish. You're doing ethnic jokes. Taco Bell is one of your first targets. - Carlos Mencia

You will hear conflicting reports coming out of (Yugoslavia), all of it designed to get American attention away from the ethnic cleansing. - Cherif Bassiouni

You have a greater ethnic mix in the population and people also are trying different foods. People are eating healthier. - Steve Campbell

You can trace back almost everything to the war... perhaps the most destructive legacy of the war, the ethnic minority wars. - Robert Taylor

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. - Henry Louis Gates

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc. - John Shelton Reed

Yet again, we face the abominable practice of 'ethnic cleansing' only a few years after it transformed the demography of Bosnia and Herzegovina... The Serbian authorities must halt such actions. - Kofi Annan