Culture Quote by Steve Inskeep

“In other words, there can be no real identity with our heritage until we know what our heritage really is. It is all hidden…

— Chancellor Williams

“No one can take away my heritage or history. At the same time, it is up to me to discover and embrace that knowledge.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

“These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.”

— Karen Jones Gowen

“It’s important to teach our children their heritage. Who are your ancestors? What were their traditions? Each of us has a story to tell.…

— Linda Weaver Clarke

“We may struggle one way but we are all being dragged another by our heritage, by history.”

— Alex Christofi

“History is simply the stories we inherit.”

— Leslie Forbes

“A heritage that is only self-congratulating and masturbatory is not a heritage at all but rather insipid nostalgia. We cannot afford that; everything must…

— Michael W. Twitty

“Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it…

— Nenia Campbell

“They would make a world that reflected back to them the richness of their heritage, and in doing so discover a new type of…

— Jesmyn Ward

If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure out how…

— Robert Hass

“What I've learned writing these stories is that history only looks heavy and solid. In fact, it won't ever stay still.”

— Emily Geminder

“We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.”

— Anonymous