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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

I am not an American; I am the American.

When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.