Quotes About Heritage

Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.

In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned.

We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.

I'm looking at looting photos from space, and there are people putting their lives on the line every day protecting their heritage. I call these people the real culture heroes.

Our efforts to preserve and protect the Alamo are first and foremost about preserving and protecting the story of the battle itself.

I think protecting rural England is more important than any work I do as an actress.

I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother's black. I'm black because I grew up in a family of all black people. I knew I was black because I grew up in an all-white neighborhood. And my parents, as part of their protective mechanisms that they were going to give to us, made it very clear what we were.

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.

I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My father is Protestant, and while he was spiritual, he wasn't much of a churchgoing person. I think it's fairly common for families to be brought up in the mother's religion.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

Let's be proud of our homeland once again!

We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

I'm very proud of the Italian heritage of my great-grandparents, who came here from Italy, and how they helped be a part of the American Dream, and that's something we want to continue to make available to everybody who wants to come here.

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

I am proud to be an African.

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

I'm a proud Cuban-Mexican immigrant.

If you go to Udaipur, even the locals from the lower middle class have a certain air about them. They are very proud of their heritage and history.

I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.