Quotes About Heritage

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.

Lucknow's architecture is a part of life in the city.

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.

The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

I come from a very long line of very superstitious Romanian women who hold on to their chastity probably way too long.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers.

I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

I'm half Native American and half Mexican and I support all native peoples around the world.

I still miss my gramma. I can see her at the farm, in her apron, babushka and support stockings. My Slovak gramma spoiled us with pig in the blankets, kalachi, pop, chips and a drawer full of lollipops. It was heaven.

My surname Volkanovski comes from my father's side, so I have many Macedonian supporters and I really appreciate it.

A lot of the Indian supporters would have been born in Birmingham, have Birmingham accents. It is my home city as well. Second, third generations from the sub-continent still support India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

When we get to the third and fourth generation immigrant families and beyond there will be more England supporters among them, maybe even the majority. I have had British Asians tell me they support England because of me or Adil Rashid and that's great to hear.

QVB have a long history of supporting Australian talent.

Canada has a great tradition of supporting songwriters.

Enzo, my dad, supports Juventus, so that's my team and, obviously, Italy, who I've been fortunate enough to see win two World Cups.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.