Quotes About Heritage

My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.

Ghazal singing will come back with a bang.

My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.

If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most important part of my identity. I'm not always sure I feel English or British, but I always feel like a Brummie.

I am at the table. I am first generation. I am Irish-Puerto Rican. I am a single mom.

My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate.

Jinkx is a single mother and I've seen so many strong Jewish women.

There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.

In South Louisiana, every single thing we do is jazz or zydeco.

I'm a Punjabi and I grew up listening to songs like 'Latthe di Chaddar,' one of my first singles.

It started in Georgia. Everyone sings there. I mean, it's all they do. So at eight, I heard a lot of Georgian singing, which is often really complicated, with seven- or eight-part harmonies.

My father has a golden voice and sings beautifully. So does my brother, and my sister pursues dance as well. Love for the fine arts runs in our family in some way or the other.

Black culture is pop culture, Black History Month is every month, and that's something they want us to forget. What better way to remember than to highlight all of our differences as a singular people across the globe?

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

I'm Lakota Sioux.

Both Gateway and I are products of Sioux City.

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

My grandma's into music. My mom is a singer. Even my sister is a much better singer than I am. So you could say music runs in the family.

Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Angel, and my brother was going to be called Bubba or Sonny, until they let me and my sister name him Josh.

I'm from a musical family. My father, Pashupati Bhattacharjee, was a great classical singer. My mother, sister, everybody was in music, and I grew up in music.

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.