Quotes About Heritage

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

My family don't listen to R&B - never have, never will. They only listen to gospel. That's where I get my voice from. I got a gospel voice.

Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices.

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.

I think it's a disgrace that some would allow extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

I think it's a disgrace that we're allowing extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

We were a great family for singing. There were good voices on both sides and no reluctance to use them.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

Most black British people who have come to our shores were not brought here in chains, but came voluntarily due to their connections to the U.K. and in search of a better life. I should know: I am one of them.

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

I have Scottish genes: my grandfather was Scottish. My father was a voracious drinker. So, drinking came naturally to me.

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

My actual surname is Singh, and I come from a Punjabi Rajput family. Had I wanted to appease voters, then I would have gladly used my real surname.

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

I want to keep the British side of my sense of humor.

I'm proud of my middle-class background because that's how I've grown up. I have my values and sensibilities.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.

I am a Malayali. My ancestors are from Tamil Nadu, but they settled in Irinjalakuda.

There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name.