Quotes About Heritage

I always felt that I wasn't as American as Americans and then I realised when I got back to the Philippines that I was not Filipino.

Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.

I have a real interest in working with younger Native artists. I think it's a very important way for Native people to communicate the realities of our culture and remember our ancestors.

My father marched in Selma. My father was there in Alabama. That's where I was born. My birth certificate says 'colored.' It does not say I'm African-American or black. So for me, those are real realities that are not subject to opinion.

Certainly, gospel was my background - is my background.

I actually grew up singing bluegrass gospel.

I grew up on a lot of gospel music.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.

When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities - how we treat one another when we are not being stupid - what I find is deeply Aboriginal.

There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

I have a U.P. connection as my mother had graduated from the Aligarh Muslim University.

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.

They've lived here now for more than half of their lives, and they raised a family here and now have grandchildren here... It has become their home, but at the same time, for my parents, I don't think either of them will ever consciously think, 'I am an American.'

I have been singularly blessed to be a granddaughter to one of the most accomplished classical vocalists of her time, daughter to one of the most ravishingly beautiful actresses ever, and wife to the greatest actor. What more can I desire?

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.