Quotes About Heritage

The Negro is the child of two cultures — Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

It is one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me...

Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories, and love.

Homecoming unites the past and the present.

...the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

God bless America. Let's save some of it.

A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.

Violence is as American as cherry pie.

Yes, I am Western, and I will remain so.

Hij kwam binnen in de lappenjas van een afkorting N.S.M.A.N.N. (Nederlandse Schrijver van Marokkaanse Afkomst met Nederlandse Nationaliteit), maar ging weer weg, na een goede rui, een verlies van overbodige veren, als auteur. Hij is stukken magerder geworden, maar gelukkiger. Noem hem voortaan simpelweg auteur.

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

then social learning is, down the line, affecting the genetic structure of the species.

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

Majka mi je dala ime Tomislav, a otac mi se prezivao Bokši?. Nakon nedelju dana u Sjedinjenim Državama, postao sam Tom Boksik. Što je onda postalo Toksik. Ono što sam danas. ?esto se pitam jesam li ja taj koji je otrovao svoje ime ili je moje ime otrovalo mene. U svakom slu?aju, donosim opasnost.

Alvin Josephy

But we...are more bound by custom than by law, and old customs die hard

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you were born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fried chicken, football, beer, and country music. It's being hospitable and devoted to screen porches, magnolias, red velvet cake, coca cola, and each other. We don't become southern--we're born that way.

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you were born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fired chicken, football, beer, and country music. It's being hospitable and devoted to screen porches, magnolias, red velvet cake, coca cola, and each other. We don't become southern--we're born that way.

Wschodnioeuropejscy ?ydzi stworzyli barwny ?wiat. Mieli j?zyk i literatur?, mieli swoich cadyków i bankierów, uczonych i rzemie?lników, socjalistów i chasydów, swoje dania, melodie, ?arty, stroje, westchnienia, gesty i sposób trzymania g?owy. Mieli "rzewny czar",który bra? si? z mieszanki intelektualizmu i mistycyzmu. Nie ma tego ?wiata. Nieliczni ocaleni nie daj? wyobra?enia o nim.

Here I am trying to breed things out of my bloodline and ye neglect to tell me that, in marrying ye, I could be breeding other odd traits right back in? Did ye nay consider what sort of children two people such as we are might breed?" "Nay, I didnae, but now that ye mention it, 'tis an intriguing thought. Mayhap a lad who can tear his enemy's throat out then lick himself clean afterward." Bridget

inculcated with a healthy national consciousness.

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors.