Quotes About Heritage

I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be cowboys and Indians.

We south Indians are clannish and comfortable about our languages.

Ballet is one form which I really want Indians to practice it.

I believe that Indians look good in traditional dresses.

I've always been an ambassador for Australians, non-Indigenous Australians and Indigenous Australians... I let people know about who I am and that I'm not just a basketballer, I'm a person who comes from a very rich heritage.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.

Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

I'm connected with my indigenous roots.

Being Indigenous, I feel very proud being an Australian and there are so many stories I want to tell.

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

We have over 25 deaf individuals in my family.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

My whole life is an interracial relationship! It's inescapable. I am who I am.

Whether artists know it or not, I think we're all a little influenced by what came before.

Of course, I have been influenced by my Punjabi and Hariyanvi roots.

I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.

I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.