Quotes About Heritage

'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black people.' But if I'm talking about a person, I'm going to say 'a Negro,' because I was taught to say that, and I don't see any reason to change it. I don't think that gives pride or anything else. I don't think you get pride by calling yourself this or that.

I feel pride in being a Greenlander.

I've been given the opportunity to carry forward the legacy with which people associate me; I can't escape it even if I don't like it. I take pride in carrying forward what's been given to me.

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

There are times this stony heart of mine feels a burst of British pride.

When you're from the islands, that's that pride.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.

I've got a lot of people I'm carrying on my back, but it's a light load because I take a lot of pride in who I am and where I came from.

I take full pride in the fact that I'm from Chandigarh.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

It's our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that's about and all the people who fought for it.

So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.

I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.

I have spent my whole life earnestly believing the fundamental American dictum that a single 'drop of black blood' makes a person 'black' primarily because they can never be 'white.'