Quotes About Heritage

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

My mother's last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an entrepreneur and someone I looked up to as a kid a lot.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

My family raised bird dogs when I was growing up in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and I'm a gun owner myself.

Ferrari, together with my family, is the owner of my heart.

If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

I have inherited pace from my dad, and in terms of the physical side with the balance, I have inherited that from my mum.

My mother used to pack me Filipino food for lunch, and I would get made fun of because of the way it smelled. Kids would make fun of me because of the way I looked and call me 'Ling Ling.'

I love a place packed with history.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

When I was growing up, 'Ebony Magazine' was a must read in our household. In those pages I found our news, our stories, and my pride.

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't really the story that I ever was interested in telling.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.

Both my parents were painters.