Quotes About Heritage

The South lost ... and that is good ... and that hateful flag needs to come down ... and reparations need to be offered and if none of that can happen ... well ... let there be poetry

I always thought that would be really neat if black people ever got control of the United States we would, of course, tear down some of the statues because we just don't like them...like all of Richmond would probably not have a statue standing.

I am from Appalachia. The Tennessee mountains with the early evenings and that great morning light made storytellers out of all of us.

I mean, that the New World black woman needs a little of the Old World black woman in her, and the other way around. I don't think that they are completely fulfilled without the other.

The cry is not yours. It is not you talking, but innumerable ancestors talking with your mouth. It is not you who desire, but innumerable generations of descendants longing with your heart.

Rob dio al niño el nombre judío de Mirdin ben Jesse

AB'ACOT, noun The cap of State, formerly used by English Kings, wrought into the figure of two crowns.

It feels like Scotland. Have you ever been? Mmmm. Twice. Have you? No. You should. It's your roots. You'll be surprised how much they tug at you when you breathe the air in the Highlands or look out at a lowland loch.

There are countless places absolutely amazing in Ireland, because it respects its history—its long and layered history—and those who came before, what they did, how they lived and died. That's why you can feel them here, if you let yourself, and other places in the world are voids because in those places everything's about what's next, and nobody much cares about what was.

People too often knock down the old for the new instead of understanding that legacy.

Just because a man had a trace of blue blood in his veins didn't mean he was quality. It didn't make him a gentleman, either. All it made him was an aristocrat.

Some people leave a legacy of goodness behind them.

Your aunt Shannon from America.

historically fairy tales were women's stories, passed orally in a time when women didn't have many rights.

Rowan." He came back to sit, so that she hid her trembling hands under the table. "My cousins are many. Here, in Ireland. In Wales, Cornwall. Some are Donovans, some Malones, some Rileys. And some are O'Mearas.

Irish. I should have known it. Such a gift of gab you've got, and all the charm in the world.

the idea that ethnicity is in some sense an essential or primordial feature is, at least some of the time, disputable, and its use is, much of the time, disreputable.

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

Every family has its scriptures, but most can't articulate them

It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author.