Quotes About Heritage

Even my early memories of Chandni Chowk are all about food.

I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started meeting people from the Ethiopian community.

My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.

I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

We need more Memphis culture in the industry.

It was nothing I ever hid and when I was asked about my background, I of course mentioned I'm Jewish. It's an important part of who I am.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.

Schoolkids - black and white - would call me Kunta Kinte as a cuss. If ever my hair was particularly messy, if ever I looked scruffy at school, I would be called Kunta Kinte. My first impression was that it was bad to be African and bad to be associated with him.

My mother's early life revolved around the Methodist faith.

I like to adapt some of the traditional dishes from my childhood from both NZ and Samoa using British ingredients and European cooking methods.

I am Mexican, and people tend to forget that.

I wanted to infuse my music with Mexican character.