Quotes About Heritage

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

Being a Brit, you make a lot of period dramas.

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

I never dropped my surname.

If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.

My background is in Dutch football.

My mam is Dutch but I'm green.

Cajun culture is dying.

I'm very proud to be part of the biggest family in wrestling, the Samoan Dynasty.

Our children are Grammers and it's easier to keep the Grammer last name because of them.

My family's from Eastern Europe.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

I come from a family of educators.

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

Even though I wasn't born or raised in El Paso, it'll always be a part of me until the day that I die.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

I listen to many forms of music. And I come from a very particular style and tradition of music, which has certain elements that are absolutely unique and, therefore, important to the world.

Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

I truly have New York embedded in my blood.

I don't believe we can run from our history. We need to embrace it and learn from it and be a better state and a better country.