Quotes About Heritage

I was reared on folk music.

Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

Some folks expect my music to sound like my dad's.

Being born into a Malayali family that followed a matriarchal system, I always felt loved and had a high sense of self-worth.

I was blessed to have followed a legendary coach in Chuck Noll.

Once a story is set to a particular city, language and culture, the rest just follows.

I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.

Food is a lens for culture.

We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.

My dad was born in Desertmartin at the foot of Slieve Gallion.

We're trying to keep the 'foot' in 'football.'

I came from a long line of football players.

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

We all know that we Africans just win medals in middle and long distance, and walking in their footsteps makes me feel proud, you know.

There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're from.

I love myself, I love my skin, and I love my history. I'm grateful for who I am, grateful for the people who made me, my ancestors, and I wouldn't change a thing.

The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.

I joke that I came out of my mother with chopsticks in my hands. But one of my earliest memories is of my dad forcing me to learn to eat with chopsticks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

My forefathers were from Punjab and so were my parents before they shifted to Delhi. And let me make this very clear - I am not a South Indian.

My own forefathers arrived in America in 1620 on the Mayflower.

Growing up as Chinese-American, as someone who experienced racism, questions of 'otherness' are always at the forefront of my mind.