Quotes About Heritage

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

I learned that South Africa is the most diverse country I have ever seen. The diversity is just striking. The food, the people, the culture, the look and the feel, for that all to be one country.

I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.

That was the special thing about the Carolina Chocolate Drops. We didn't want to do music full-time. We weren't looking to get rich, which is good, because we didn't. But we went further than we thought we would go. We started that band to celebrate Joe Thompson and the black string band music. That's not really a recipe for commercial success.

We're not here as a black band playing white string band music. You know, we play stuff in the Appalachians, we play stuff in the white community, but we really highlight the black community's music.

When you're biracial, you can feel like you're fully neither, not fully both. But I won't strip away my heritage for anyone's comfort.

Someone on the Scottish side of the family got me one and I never took it off. I would be down the country park playing in a Celtic strip in England.

We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

Strong families lead to strong nations.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.

I have a very strong sense of who I am as a Jew and a strong sense of belonging.

I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

I definitely come from a line of strong women. It's not only like my mother and my grandmother, but my aunties too.

I am the product of two very strong women, my mum and my grandma, who prioritized education.

My mother was an extremely strong Pueblo woman. My grandmother was the same. I had strong women in my life. My aunties who were there for me every step of the way.

My mom. My grandma, my grandfather. We have a very strong, strong line of amazing people in the family. Very strong women.

I can't disappear. I come from a family of beautiful women, strong women - and 'strong' defined by being themselves.

We've always had very strong women in my family.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

I come from really strong women. My mum is really strong, so that's driven that into me, and my grandma was the strongest woman I've known in my life.