Quotes About Heritage

Your story must told.Live a life legacy- written book or notes.This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

The greatness of our destination will be lost without the memory of our beginning.

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. "What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America" is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, "our Original Sin.

The historian must have no country. —JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

They came with nothing, and for a complicated set of reasons, many of them still have nothing. The slurs stick to me, standing on these graves. Rednecks . Trailer-park trash. Racists. Cannon fodder. My ancestors. My people. Me.

But to tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism, and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than the symbol of a racist heritage, is one of the great blasphemies of our modern age.

Charging Elk would make his own prayers when the time came. But his prayers would be of thanks for having lived on this earth, not for his "nagi's" future.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

O black and unknown bards of long ago,How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?How, in your darkness, did you come to knowThe power and beauty of the minstrels' lyre?

But the more she talked, the less was I reassured, and I stopped her by asking: "Well, mother, am I white? Are you white?" She answered tremblingly: "No, I am not white, but you—your father is one of the greatest men in the country—the best blood of the South is in you—" This suddenly opened up in my heart a fresh chasm of misgiving and fear

My boy, you are by blood, by appearance, by education, and by tastes a white man. Now, why do you want to throw your life away amidst the poverty and ignorance, in the hopeless struggle, of the black people of the United States?

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

Mathias bore the immigrant's burden. He had one foot on one side of the ocean in Germany and the other in America, which made him an outsider in both places.

We decided he might like to know about the people and places that belong to him now so he can begin a story all his own.

And it will matter little, in after days, Whether this twig, or that, kindled the blaze.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

She'd never been a lot of things, and though she used to blame her miseries on her heritage, she'd long since realized that if you blame your parents for your failures, you have to give them credit for your success.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

The upper classes worshipped then, as now, not the Spirit of Spring but their own ancestors.

The Italians arrived with a strong musical tradition; they also had their faith. But food was their cultural touchstone, their way of defying the critics, of tolerating the slurs and all of the other injustices. It was their way of being Italian.

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

She remembered the old man in the bar in the Mission District telling her, 'We are the biggest tribe of all, us displaced ones, us urban Indians, us sidewalk redskins.