Quotes About Heritage

Cuba is part of who I am. It is my family's homeland.

Sometimes in Asian homes it is all about where we've come from, which is important too, but it is about where you live and where you're born and the people who are the same as you.

I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.

Every St. Patrick's Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green.

Everyone knows I'm very close to my family, my hometown, my homeland.

If you're going to break out anywhere it would be nice to break out in your hometown.

As we continue our fight to advance civil rights and racial justice, we need to not only recognize but celebrate how Hip Hop and Black Americans have given so much to our culture and our country.

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.

I was born in America. I was raised in America. And America truly has done me a lot of dirt, a lot of horrible things that I never will forget, but I know this is where I was born at.

My children don't even know who Fairuz is - a horrifying thought.

It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.

The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It's a whole, with clowns and acrobats.

The English take the breeding of their horses and dogs more seriously than they do their children. God forbid that the wrong drop of blood should get into their labrador. But their children marry everywhere.

I want to protect my legacy. I've trained great horses.

My father was a caretaker of a hacienda. It was a huge place with a lot of animals. I was actually born there, not at a hospital but at the hacienda.

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

Things are loud in a Jewish household. Conversations are up here; they're pitched pretty high. That's just the way we talk.

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

I've cooked my whole life, and I grew up in a household of cooks.

I grew up in a culturally different household.

My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.

There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.

There is no monolithic black culture. It's completely different for someone born in Harlem to someone born in Houston or London with one exception, which is that people contributing to black culture have the experience of being black.