Quotes About Legacy

When 'Aashiqui' was released nobody knew that it will be such a good film... it is a cult film.

I used to say if there was anything I would really want to have as I kind of get older in my career, it would be wonderful to have relevance to somebody in some way so that I could continue to work on some level.

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.

'Aurat' is an iconic poem which is relevant 70 years later and informs me in the work I do with women.

Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.

Of course I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm interested in what's next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I've done my bit for the past. I've only ever been about what's next, really, and I'll be that way until I keel over.

The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.

Like, why is Batman so relevant? It's because he gets reinvented constantly. There are a lot of stories you can tell with that character.

What's most exciting about the 'Cobra Kai' series is that it pays homage to the legacy; it has the nostalgia sprinkled throughout, the callbacks to all the stuff the fans would want to see. It has a completely fresh, relevant angle into the next generation.

So long as I'm relevant, and so long as my health permits and people still want me, I will continue.

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

I've spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. 'I'm going to do a play now.' 'Now I'll do a musical.' That was my instinct. So I don't feel boxed in. But 'African-American woman' is part of my identity. I don't want to relinquish that - especially as a mother, helping my daughter find her identity.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

There's never been anyone like Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and there never will be. She is such an important source of inspiration for me, reluctant recipe writer and follower that I am.

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.