Quotes About Heritage

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

Both of my parents were musicians.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

I am a proud, British-born Muslim, and I love my country more than any other place on earth.

I love my heritage both as someone who grew up as a Muslim and as an Indian - it's part of who I am and I would never deny it.

I belong to a Bohri Muslim family, and for us, food is our biggest celebration. We are used to elaborate five- to six-course meals.

I am Shia Muslim.

My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.

We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing up I didn't know.

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.

My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.

I've never forgot my roots and where I came from, and I'd not change a thing about my journey.

I know that my great-grandfather - George Rich - was born in Cape Town in 1866 and it set my journey off to go to Cape Town to discover and find out more.

I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

My soul is still Irish.

Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.

I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.

Creativity is not a mysterious thing, it's a historical thing.