Quotes About Heritage

Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.

You can tell the history of people on a plate.

We live in the greatest country in the history of mankind every single day.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

The history of country music is as important as any other art form.

When you enter the gates of the All England Club, you can feel the history of tennis.

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music.

If you want to learn about the history of a people, eat their food and drink their beverages.

The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.

Being from Colorado is, to me, very, very special. I'm just very thankful to be here. I'm also thankful to be a part of the history of this state.

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.

I think that's the one thing we all hope for in this life is we leave something of a legacy, that's meaningful to someone else, when we leave here.

The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.

The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma's schnecken.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.