Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.
When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.
Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.
We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
I speak African. I can even speak Italian.
As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.