Quotes About Heritage

Telling diverse stories is at the heart of our culture.

I have a really diverse family and have a diverse background in music.

I've grown up in a very diverse background.

We're a country of many different cultures, and that's always what has made this country stand out. It almost feels like making diverse movies is the most American thing you can do.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

In California, we celebrate our diversity. We celebrate who we are because we're proud of who we are; we're proud of where our families come from.

The question is not how do we get diversity into bluegrass, but how do we get diversity back into bluegrass?

Chinese cuisine has so much diversity, the area it covers is so great and so is the taste.

There is so much diversity in India in terms of religion, schools of thought, everything.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

When I took my kids to see the house that we're buying I took them in the car to the estate I grew up on. I got the kids out of the car and explained that this is where they're from.

I do a lot of explaining of where I'm from to Americans.

That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.

Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

Being from Delhi I have been exposed to Afghan culture.

I am my father's daughter: I have his language, his expressions.

I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious.

A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as the extent to which it is willing to defend its identity.

From the first time I played with Lester Flatt, I sensed an extreme amount of history around me.