Quotes About Heritage

Delhi is a Punjabi city and everyone has relations in Punjab.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

It's hard not to be impressed by my older relatives.

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.

In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living.

Plenty of people are intrigued by their family history. Growing up as the son of West Indian immigrants who moved to London in the 1950s and 60s, I was especially fascinated by anecdotes about the lives of my Guyanese relatives, which seemed a million miles away from Tottenham's Broadwater Farm estate.

I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.

Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while still respecting the European backgrounds of my relatives.

My mother is from Chennai, and I have a lot of relatives here.

I'm North Indian and Punjabi-ness is in my blood. Working in a Hindi film just makes me feel more confident.

I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India.

I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that.

I'm a Hindu and a Nepali by birth.

I belong to a Punjabi Hindu family.

Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically.

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

I'm proud of being Hispanic.

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.