Quotes About Heritage

My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.

When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.

My father bought a house in Panther Hollow. We were the first Italians in the neighborhood.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.

I was so excited when 'Parasite' won the Oscar last year, and part of that was the shared Korean heritage and also it was just knowing that Bong Joon Ho made an incredible film and it didn't matter what language they were speaking, what country it was from, audiences all around the world responded to it.

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

I was born in Paris. I grew up here, and I still live here, and I will forever, I think.

My mom spent like a decade of her life living in Paris, and I grew up listening to a lot of French music as well as Arabic music.

Paris is in my story. Nobody can take it away.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.

I would love to play an H Mart parking lot.

There are over 400 parks in all 50 states that represent our country and that are enriched with stories that tell about how our country became what it is today. There is a lot of history frozen in these places.

I've learnt music, since this is a part and parcel of growing up in a traditional Tamil Brahmin family. In fact, I've even given three exams in music when I was young.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I like clothes. I like fashion, particularly men's fashion. Both my father and my grandmother on my mother's side were tailors, so I think it's in my blood.

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.