Quotes About Roots

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

Texas is where I found my musical self.

I'm a Texas girl.

I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

When I was growing up in Texas, I didn't think there was anywhere else to live; that's how we're raised in Texas.

My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as 'Texas of the North.'

A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.

I'm from Houston, Texas.

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

People ask me, 'What is the mystique of the Texas songwriter?' Well, we ran barefoot from March until November. I think there's something about being a barefoot kid that gets you closer to the place - you take root.

I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.

I don't hate anything about Texas. I love my state. I love my area. It's like home.

I was born in Texas, you know. I was born in Houston.

All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

'Roots' was a massive responsibility because it is this foundational text in the States and it also resonates fairly strongly with pretty much any black community globally.

I felt like it was the space that I could be the most authentic of anywhere because of how I grew up. Even though some of the songs and some of the texture wasn't what I like, I felt like country music was more authentic, in general, than anywhere else.

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It's always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It's just a special place.

The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.