Quotes About Heritage

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.

I get quite bemused by the comments made about what I wear because, for African people, how you dress is very important.

I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.

Food is a language that my entire family have used to communicate with each other.

While we might now have expanded into the U.S.A. with our California office, I'm a Coundon girl born and bred and proud that Crafter's Companion is based in the North East of England.

I don't want to compare but when you're a Manchester United player, you're a Manchester United player for life.

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.

I just want to complete my legacy.

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

We were from a predominantly white area, my dad was black and my mum was white, so that had its complications.

My father Apresh Lahiri and mother Bansari Lahiri were great composers of their time.

It is sometimes difficult to comprehend that I am the only member of our original family still living.

I'm all about 'molde de arroz con picadillo'.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

Saiyans don't have much of a concept of 'family.'

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

Ask anybody from Africa which country is the best in terms of dressing, and they'll tell you Congo.

I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

I'm so connected to the community that I was lucky enough to be born into.