Quotes About Roots

I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.

When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda like the Roots would do. I will put New Orleans music on top of that with some other rhythms.

Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.

New Orleans made me who I am.

New Orleans is home. That's where the heart is.

I always say New Orleans is my heart. It's where I'm from. I go back, and I have a huge fondness for it.

My family is from New Orleans. My grandma is French. Everybody else is from Mississippi - Creole people.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I was brought up in a very traditional way by my grandparents in an orthodox Tamil-Brahmin family.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.

Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

I always had this crisis: where do I come from? I was never an insider, never an outsider; I was always in the middle. But it means I never have borders in my head.

I don't think I'm over-the-top cocky, I'm just proud of where I came from.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

I never wanted to stay overseas.

When I made the UFC, everyone said, 'You need to go overseas.' I thought I had to go as well, and I went to Tristar Gym, and I was there for one or two years. But changes were needed. I'd come off back-to-back losses - Court McGee and Stephen Thompson - and I needed to look at my roots and go back to the drawing board.

Raised from scratch on sandbanks, the city lacked deep roots. No wonder, to Roman eyes, that it had such a harlot character. Without custom there could be no shame, and without shame anything became possible. A people whose traditions had withered would become prey to the most repellent and degrading habits.

Finding a homeland is not the same as dwelling in the place where our ancestors once used to live."   —KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI

Every artist is born in a place, within a family, and though she may leave those sources far behind, they remain within her.

I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan

That's right," she said. "DIE, you little monster plants. May your roots always be thirsty and your seeds all meet a fiery death until you're extinct forever! I HATE you!

My mother's name was Palm,

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.