Quotes About Heritage

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

Through all my years enslaved, I've listened to ancestral voices echoing through my weariness, giving me strength to withstand injustice, to believe in myself and survive. May our songs and stories keep alive in us the will to grow in learning. The longing to be free!

Every African soul is either carrying a bundle or in it. What is wrong with this world that it wants to waste you like that ... my children ... my Africa!

There is that sense of belonging one never has except in one's own country. Anywhere else, no matter how long you stay, they never let you forget you are alien. Indeed, it is a good thing, because it is on foreign soil that you are made more conscious of your own roots and consequently become more knowledgable. And that is why, in my writings, I talk of my country, present my people to others.

I grew up with the English language but not with the culture behind it. I was always outside that and deeply rooted in my own. I

Deutschland, Deutschland äber Alles [Germany above everything].

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

The dead govern the living.

You have not yet destroyed oral tradition only because it is the one language that cannot be sacked, robbed, repeated, plagiarized, copied. What is spoken remains alive.

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

This move is called Qworegoys, and the women of my grandmother's family taught it to their daughters just as they taught them to make thorn-bush fences to protect the hut from hyenas.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

He looked out at the country that ran to the mountains. Cahill Ranch. His grandfather had started it, his father had worked it and now two of his brothers ran the cattle part of it to keep the place going while he and his sister, Lillie, and brother Darby had taken other paths. Not to mention their oldest brother Tucker who'd struck out at seventeen and hadn't been seen or heard from since.

To my father, Bellur Krishnamachar, my mother, Seshamma, and my birthplace, Bellur

We will never lose sight of our heritage, for if we forget where we came from we will lose our way forward.

Charlie's a prince of the Seminole Nation. His ancestors go back to the gods. He sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.

China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization.

Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.

That's the beauty of Mumbai. While some parts have grown rapidly, there are places like Churchgate that have retained their character.

I think what sets a New York rapper apart from other rappers from other places is just being from New York.