Stokely Carmichael Quotes

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

No matter where I go I know where I came from.

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.

U don't know where u goin unless u know where u come from.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

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

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

You can write 'little beast' if you want, but my name is David Ferrer.

Where you come from is such a huge part of who you are today.

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.

How do we know who we are if we don’t know where we’ve been?

It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are.

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

I don't care where people come from, but others are fascinated about where I come from.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

I want people to know about my story and where I came from.

I am Michael Render - that's what my mom named me. 'Killer Mike' is what my dumb friends called me in a rap battle once, and it stuck.

I know where I come from and what my roots are.

Now if anyone calls me Anthony, I usually don't respond.

I'll never forget where I came from, and I'll never forget who I am.

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

Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.

Every time I introduce myself, I'm reminded where I came from.