Quotes About Heritage

There's nothing purer than Janette Carter with an autoharp.

There are a whole lot of Carter Family songs.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

My mom was Roman Catholic, my dad was part of.

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

I came from a very conservative Catholic family.

I'm from a close-knit Catholic family.

My parents were Belfast Catholics.

Every country has things to be proud of and to celebrate.

I celebrate my blackness. I love the artistic vibrancy of the culture I was born to.

Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Celtic was a part of our family. It still is.

Culture is central to what makes us human.

My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you live and exist as a Black person in America, at least to white society, to a certain extent, no one is asking where you're from and where you were born.

It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.

I have been told for most of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man.

I feel like we have so much to add to this book called the American Dream, and I want to add our chapter to it. I want to talk about what it means to be brown American and this concept of what I feel is the New Brown America.

I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

Growing up in a Latin family has given me my charisma out there, my swag.

I was born and raised in Charleston, SC.

My parents are still here in Charleston, and I have a lot of family here, so it's great to be back.

When we go back to Samoa, where my mother was born, we always check out the art by local artists.