Rosa Parks Quotes

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

I always wanted my kids to be proud of their heritage.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.

There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

I'm a member of a very complex and richly valued race.

Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.

I love my brownness.

I may be born in the U.K., but nobody takes away from the fact that I'm an Arab, and I'm proud to be Arab.

I want to be known for what I am, black and white, because I'm proud of both.

I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.

I go to church for the cultural element. It's where you go to see Greek people once a week. It's real important to me, and I hope my children see they're part of something bigger than just this family.

I want to represent my color and ethnicity. To be proud of our heritages is really cool.

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud of my British side.

When I said I had always hoped to marry in my race, I really do mean that. That doesn't mean I absolutely wouldn't marry outside of it, but there's a culture and traditions to maintain, and I have great pride in them, and I always thought it would be wonderful to share that with somebody of my race.

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

If you are black, if you are Puerto Rican or Hispanic, be proud of that. But don't let it become a problem. Let it become somebody else's problem.

There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who never gave up our African identity at no time during our stay here.