Emily Kuroda Quotes

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

I love my heritage!

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

There is also a need that each should understand where he came from and what he is -- and what will become of him.

I feel like our history and our roots make us who we are.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.

I always had my roots in the past.

Now that I'm older, I appreciate my culture and I appreciate Spanish. I feel bad I didn't pick up on it earlier.

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

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

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.