Quotes About Heritage

I wanted to know who my people were. And I - I think like a lot of Americans - thought that I could find those people in the past. I could find this mythic tribe of elders who would ground me in a story that was irrefutable, undeniable, that was unique and my own, and it would satisfy all my cravings.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.

Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder.

My mother was the kind of person who was very much part of her tribe and very much a satellite of her tribe. She was the girl who left her family at the age of 17 and went to Washington. My mother was orphaned at three and then was brought up by my aunt Goldie. So, yes she belonged, but there was a part of her that didn't.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.

It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

Declaration of Independence, mankind was divided into nations by ethnicities and tribes.

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

I think we have a lot to learn from ancient cultures and different tribes.

Libya is divided into tribes and clans.

In Ireland, the tribes are called after the founder, as the Hy Conaill, Hy Fiachra, or sons of Conal, sons of Fiech, through grand, great-grand, and great-great-grandchildren.

Sioux was always a horse culture, especially the Lakota Sioux. My mom is from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; my dad is from a Sioux Indian reservation. Both tribes are Lakota.

The history of Black Americans in South Carolina is riddled with trials and tribulations.

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life' is a tribute to roots reggae music. The fruit is what blossoms into different colors and shades, but the root has to stand predominant.

We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.

For me, muscle cars are a tribute to American ingenuity.

When we were first creating the look of 'Kung Fu Panda,' we wanted to pay tribute to the beautiful tradition and culture of China.

We all have to go. Let us create something which will stay longer or forever.

It's too late for you Wilhelmina Grimm, great great great granddaughter of Wilhelm Grimm.

Most probably your belief system is screwed up. And so were your ancestors, before you. And now, maybe so are you. Overcome it, you!

I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people.