Aja Brown Quotes

I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

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

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

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

I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

The most important thing in life is to know where you come from, and I know where I come from.

I still feel like the same girl who grew up in Albion Park. I'm such a family girl. I haven't changed.

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

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

My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

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.

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.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.