Costa Ronin Quotes

Culture in general is important, and people's identify is tied up in it. It's how we connect with others.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage.

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.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

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.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

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

I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

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

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.