Quotes About Heritage

I look so much like my dad - same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead - and I play a little like him too. But I am my mother's son. I am who I am because of her.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

I just want to say that 'Minari' is about a family. It's a family trying to learn how to speak a language of its own. It goes deeper than any American language and any foreign language.

I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.

I am, first and foremost, a proud Louisianan.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

We're going to be Black men forever. And that's not going to ever change.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

My family grew up in Florence. There I became what I am now, and those are things that cannot be forgotten.

All these years, I have never forgotten what my parents have given me, and that is why I take special pride in composing music based on ragas and used folk music in films like 'Apne Paraye.'

My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy than many other people did. So I didn't feel like an ordinary black Jamaican boy.

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia.

If I am ever forced to choose between my identity as a Tamilian and an award from the central government, I will choose the former.

I think there is nothing more important in forming a human being than your family. It is how you have been brought up and been taken care of that eventually is how you will deal with and treat the world.

Forming communities - even and especially ones based on strong loyalties and allegiances - is in our DNA. It's what's kept us alive for millions of years.

I am fortunate that I was born in a family where music was already a part of life.

Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I've never been considered one of the world's greatest dancers.

My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background.

How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.