Quotes About Heritage

We'd only speak Korean at home. They wouldn't let us have sleepovers and sent us away to Korean church camp during the summers. We had weird food concoctions, too, so instead of spaghetti bolognese, we had rice bolognese with kimchi.

I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

I spent my summers in Sonoma at my grandfather's ranch, we called it Rancho Rodeo.

I used to spend summers with my Granma in Louisiana; Crowley, LA.

My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.

Sun Studios was where so much of American music exploded from.

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

My mother was from Scotland and had very fair skin... she wouldn't allow us to go in the sun.

Being Irish, I grew up eating a Sunday roast.

The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground. The songs sound quite old, even if they're new. They sound like they've been sung by different people for years.

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

Being Latina, I'm super close with my family. I love them, and I love spending time with them. I love being at my grandma's house and eating her food.

Believe in a love that is preserved for you like a heritage, and trust that in this love there is a strength and a blessing which you are not bound to leave behind you though you may travel far!

And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as blood that throbs, and as gesture that rises up out of the depths of time.

Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.

They can laugh, but they can't deny us. They can curse and kill us, but they can't destroy us. This land is ours because we come out of it, we bled in it, our tears watered it, we fertilized it with our dead. So the more of us they destroy, the more it becomes filled with the spirit of our redemption.

America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain.

Hell, he never had any doubts about his humanity -- that was left to his free offspring.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed.

you ought to know better'n me that they respect some things of ours. Or at least they leave them alone. Maybe not our women or our right to good food and education, but they respect our burying grounds.