Alice Walker Quotes

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.

As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

It's where you're from - it's your roots - and that's why I like to get back to Nacogdoches in the offseason and hang out with my family. To me, it keeps me grounded and reminds me of how far I've come.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

My family came from Ecuador.

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for personal reasons. My birth name is actually Max Deitch.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.