Quotes About Heritage

Hosiah Lister, now dead, rec'd his freedom.

De ontdekking van Rome laat je voelen dat Latijn weliswaar een dode taal heet, maar dat het een levende sleutel is om de talloze deuren naar ons eigen Europese culturele verleden te openen, niet op zoek naar eenheid, maar juist tastend naar de rijke verscheidenheid als de essentie van dat Europa.

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child.

That is my mother's lyre,' I almost said. The words were in my mouth, and behind them others crowded close. 'That is my lyre.

It did not take Lil-Umbra long with her fifteen-year-old legs and her slender figure to scamper down the quarter-of-a-mile avenue of over-arching elms that led due eastward from the Fortress of Roque, where she lived, to the ancient circle of Druidic stones that had come to be known as Castrum Sanctum.

Palermo also seemed like a stone palimpsest of cultures stretching back over many hundreds of years.

you dont like the stars in Old Glory Then go back to your land across the sea To the land from which you came Whatever be its name

The whole notion of what is black and what is Southern is a thorny issue, to say the least.

Where does black food (Dunbar food, to use Ishmael Reed's term, which I prefer to 'soul food') stop and Southern food begin, or vice versa?

Here it is also possible to suggest that there are more than a few similarities in dishes of African origin throughout the hemisphere, notably the preparation of composed rice dishes; the creation of various types of fritters and croquettes; the use of smoked ingredients for seasoning; the use of okra as a thickener; the abundant use of leafy green vegetables; the abundant use (some would say abuse) of peppery hot sauces; and the use of nuts and seeds as thickeners.

Wherever okra points its green tip, Africa has been: 'nuff said.

Given the overwhelming presence of English settlers, the warp of cookery in the colonies was English. … But from the very beginning, there were other peoples on the scene contributing brilliant streaks and splashes of color to the tapestry that was American cookery.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

Oscar Handlin has said, "Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. In the same sense we cannot really speak of a particular immigrant contribution to America, because All Americans have been immigrants or the decedents of immigrants, even the Indians as mentioned before, migrated to the American continent. We can only speak of people whose roots in America are older or newer.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage. . . Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.

You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else.

Ayn? dile, ayn? geçmiÅŸe ve daha pek çok ayn? ÅŸeye sahip olup da, onlara, Ä°ngilizlere ait olmamaktan kaynaklanan bir öfke ve ÅŸaÅŸk?nl?k kar???m? his. Kökleri olmamaktan beter bir durumdu bu... bir türe ait olamamak.

This girl is the daughter of the man who once owned Jon's mother as a negro-slave was owned. You can't lay that ghost; don't try to, June! It's asking us to see Jon joined to the flesh and blood of the man who possessed Jon's mother against her will.

Appalachia was Appalachia, regardless of boundaries someone had set an eternity ago. A land of breathtaking beauty, of steep hills and rolling mountains

The children learned English, taught it to their parents, and rarely spoke the mother tongues at home.