Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Cultural Heritage Quotes
ArtCultural HeritageIdentityMusicPassion My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
Cultural HeritageDiversity in MusicEconomic ImpactMusic IndustryPreservation of Art Forms The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
Cultural HeritageHistoryIdentityRacial Injustice All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
CommunityCultural HeritageDiversityFamilyIdentity My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.
Childhood MemoriesCultural HeritageCultural PreservationFamily BondsLearning and Education As a kid, I was running around the conservatory, playing with my grandparents' students who were like babysitters, taking cello and piano lessons, eating good food, and making sure I didn't completely forget my Chinese every summer.
CreativityCultural HeritageFreedomHumorSelf-Expression There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
CelebrationCultural HeritageFamily InfluenceIdentityTradition I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.
CosmologyCultural HeritageHealthcareLiteraturePhilosophy Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
CommunityCultural HeritageIdentityMusicPride Hip-hop originated from the Bronx specifically; that means everything. I'm down the block from where hip-hop was born and raised, so I'm glad I am here and I'm able to represent New York the way I am.
Cultural HeritageIdentityInternational RelationsRelationships Because of our Turkish roots, we still have a very strong relationship with Turkey.
Cultural HeritageIdentityRace and PerceptionSelf-Identity I knew I was half Chinese, but Iceland is so homogenous that I wasn't able to identify with the Asian part of myself. Even though I speak Chinese and was raised by Chinese women, I would say I'm quite white-passing when it comes to being Asian.
Cultural HeritageIdentityIntegrationPrivilegeValues I feel privileged to have grown up in Germany so it was a heavy blow for me to be portrayed as somebody who isn't integrated and who doesn't live his life according to German values.