Quotes About Heritage

The country I live in is never clear about its name. My passport says 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,' and citizens of the U.K. may call themselves British, English, Scottish, Welsh or from Northern Ireland.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.

I'd rather be Welsh than English, that's for sure.

I just go broad Welsh when I'm nervous.

I'm a hugely proud Welsh person. I just love it - it's something very special, being Welsh.

We were descended from royalty.

Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.

My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.

My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.

My father is from the West Indies, the St. Thomas Virgin Islands.

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.

When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.

I can't imagine life without Poland. I find it very hard to find a place for myself in the West.

Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.

Southall Broadway, in west London, has been a constant part of my life from the day I arrived in England as a baby from Kenya in 1962. My parents rented a room in one of the terraces off the Broadway, and I've seen it change from an ordinary English high street to what is now 'Little India.' with a confident Asian community.