Quotes About Heritage

Even though I moved to Florida, I'm still Polish.

Black History Month is an annual opportunity to recognize the central role of African Americans in our state's economic, cultural, social and political history.

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

Polo has always had an old-fashioned, aristocratic English feel.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin, jazz and Middle Eastern music.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family - my aunties, grandparents - is in Africa.

As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.

I come from Israel, where most of the population is dark-haired, dark-skinned, dark-eyed.

Volunteering is as Iowan as pork chop on a stick at the State Fair.

You don't get that opportunity everyday to do Le Mans with Porsche, a brand that has so much tradition and history. So I just grabbed the opportunity while it was there.

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.

I'm of Cypriot heritage, we have no concept of portion control.

When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.

To live in Portsmouth without possessing a family portrait done by Copley is like living in Boston without having an ancestor in the old Granary Burying-Ground. You can exist, but you cannot be said to flourish.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.