Quotes About Heritage

I made my England debut when I was 17, against India. I was the first Asian to play for the England women's team, and I did have mixed feelings playing against the country my parents are from but I was born and bred in England and I've always known I wanted to play for my country.

I think my heritage makes me very open to try things, taking on different flavours, mixing it all up. I find that exciting.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.

I'm as old-school as it gets in this modern era. I'm the last of a dying breed.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

My mom and grandma have made clothes their whole life. My grandma had her own factory.

There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that - throughout history, the lighter you are, that's how it's been. But it's not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look.

I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

I'm a class mongrel.

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.

Though I had been born in Maryland, Montana was where I truly belonged.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

I love Black History Month and celebrating my ancestral roots, but not just my blackness, which is so beautiful. But my Tahitian and my Italian - everything that makes me, me.

The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.

Being able to invest in my community and invest in areas that people might not really know about and monuments that people might not know about in their own backyard is a great opportunity.

The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'

I didn't have much of a taste for Korean food growing up: I was over the moon about Mexican food.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.