Quotes About Heritage

My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

The history of a people are found in its songs.