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I'm proud of being Hispanic.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

I am very Latino in everything I am and I do, but there's a part of me that's also something else. I'm reflective of the way this country's gonna be in the next 40 years. More multicultural is what we'll see.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.

You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.