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Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.