Quotes About Heritage

It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter; we have a great history of fighters.

I am a Puerto Rican. I could have been born on the moon, but I'm still Puerto Rican.

I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.

I'm half Puerto Rican.

I grew up in a house where we danced all the time because we're Puerto Rican.

I don't diet. I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away.

I'm a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.

I feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.

I'm such a true Puerto Rican.

My dad was born in Cuba and my mother's family is Puerto Rican. But my parents are both extremely proud to be American citizens, and they raised me to take pride in being from this country.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

My mother was born in Sinaloa, and she moved to Los Angeles when she was three years old. My father was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and moved here when he was 19. They met at the Palladium in Hollywood, and they've been together from that moment on.

Puerto Rico is a powerful island.

I don't think it's fair that you can say I'm not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn't born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican.

It's an exciting feeling going to Puerto Rico. To go back where my dad was born, my bloodline, it means a lot to me to reach out to my fans in Puerto Rico.

I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico.

I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico.

My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful.

You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.

It's great to be Puerto Rican, because Puerto Rico loves boxing. They don't have a lot of major sports down there.