Quotes About Heritage

They were touched by the same inheritance.

If my dad hadn't died young? No way I'd be here. It's the pain. Jews, gays, women, blacks—the bloody Irish. That's our secret fucking strength.

Her forefathers had been Vikings, savage chieftains who bore no cross and brooked no hindrance to their will.

he set out for Berkeley County, Virginia, to tell his people of the magnificent country he had discovered.

if we lose the ruins nothing will be left

We cry 'cause we slave. In night time we cry, we say we born and raised to be free people and now we slave. We doan know why we be bring 'way from our country to work lak dis. It strange to us. Everybody lookee at us strange. We want to talk wid de udder colored folkses but dey doan know whut we say. Some makee de fun at us.

Thankee Jesus! Someone come ast about Cudjo! I want tellee someobody who I is, so maybe dey go in the Afficky soil some day and callee my name and somebody say, 'Yeah, I know Kossula.

Kossola was born circa 1841, in the town of Bantè, the home to the Isha subgroup of the Yoruba people of West Africa. He was the second child of Fondlolu, who was the second of his father's three wives. His mother named him Kossola, meaning "I do not lose my fruits anymore" or "my children do not die any more.

Dis ain't no business proposition, and no race after property and titles. Dis is uh love game. Ah done lived Grandma's way, now Ah means tuh live mine.

Zora and her daughters are a tradition-within-the-tradition, a black woman's voice.

my people had sold me and the white people had bought me.

Zora Neale Hurston

Oluale Kossola was not just a repository of black genius, tapped for a few stories, tales, and colorful phrases, and Zora Neale Hurston knew this. She did not perceive Barracoon as another cultural artifact illustrating the theoretical characteristics of Negro expression but as one, singular, portrait of black humanity.

My name, is not Cudjo Lewis. It Kossula.

Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die, Sister Berry snapped.

In this chapter, what do you find out about Janie's parents and early childhood? CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1

I come from a very matriarchal family, which is the case for a lot of Aboriginal families.

I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.

My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.

Day of Absence is a tradition at Evergreen.

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

It would be absurd to say I'm not British - you can hear it when I speak.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I don't have the right accent.