Quotes About Tradition

Zora and her daughters are a tradition-within-the-tradition, a black woman's voice.

All of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innovations of tone and tempo were conceivable. Then they hushed and ate barbecue.

He cut nine hairs out of the mole on her head for luck and went off happy

I come from a very matriarchal family, which is the case for a lot of Aboriginal families.

Day of Absence is a tradition at Evergreen.

I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when I die, and my cooking translates in my daughter's memory as, simply, this: time.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

I asked my mother, 'Why shouldn't I act?' She said, 'Nobody in the family has acted, so why should you?'

I was quite adamant that I will not change my name as it was given by my parents.

There's nothing wrong with the classic ways of adapting stuff.

Before I got married, I used to start prepping up for Diwali almost a month in advance.

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

There are a lot of things that people learn and live through culture first, and politics comes afterward.

Alabama has a rich history.

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.

I like American history.

I don't think there is much American music.

American society is still puritanical.

For all the anti-Americanism around the world, people have this love of Americana.

The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there.

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.

My dad is amazing. He has, like, ancient Chinese skills.

Every musician should announce the raga and the sahityam before performing.

I came from a military family, so there are a lot of things I think about when the anthem is playing.