Quotes About Heritage

My father initiated me to the Hanuman Chalisa and my mother to the rituals and community feelings of Durga Puja. I still have that in me and want to come back to Delhi whenever I can to imbibe more.

Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past.

I've always been a Democrat; it runs in my family.

I come from a long line of Democrats.

I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California.

I'm from Denmark, so I like to support the Danes.

Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver.

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

Everybody knows I'm Canadian, and I'm proud of that. I'll never deny that fact that I'm Canadian.

You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture.

Derby born and bred, mate.

I think we should go back to the old style of the draw at the Derby.

Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.

Obviously I descend from Africa.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.

I want women and girls of African descent and of color to be able to not have to keep searching for stories about themselves.

I am of an African-Jamaican descent.

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

I was born in the middle of the Sahara desert while my parents were there and that's probably why I have a Bedouin spirit!

I love our Polynesian designs, whether or not it is coming from Samoa, as I have some of my designs coming from, or right from home in O'ahu.

The Arabic world was very interesting in the 1920s to '60s: there was something booming culturally, and I found my culture very desirable when I listened to these songs.

For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.