Quotes About Heritage

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.

Certainly, we are all on the shoulders of those who fought for our country. But the first peoples of this land justifiably might feel bitterness.

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

I'm not black myself, but my sons are.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 13 because I wanted to be like my mum and my gran, who both have blonde hair.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

I've got some alien blood in me.

Athletics is in my blood.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

I've got Arabic music in my blood.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

We're good at what we do because we're a family - this is in our bloody DNA; this is what we do.

Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.