Sandra Cisneros Quotes

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation.

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.

I connect with my culture through my family. I speak Portuguese to my parents so that I can practice. I stay engaged with my extended family through a lively group chat on WhatsApp. That sense of community and family is the heart of Brazilian culture, and staying engaged with my family is what keeps me connected.

Being Latina, I'm super close with my family. I love them, and I love spending time with them. I love being at my grandma's house and eating her food.

My father initiated me to the Hanuman Chalisa and my mother to the rituals and community feelings of Durga Puja. I still have that in me and want to come back to Delhi whenever I can to imbibe more.

I have two aunts and three cousins in Korea as well.

I've been celebrating the Day of the Dead since I was 6 years old because my grandfather passed away back then. The Day of the Dead was just a wonderful and joyful celebration where I can be with him and connect with him again.

I have a massive Samoan family. And the Samoan culture has always played a massive part of my life. I've got hundreds of family on my dad's side that live in Samoa and in New Zealand. I've just been surrounded by the culture ever since I was a kid.

There is nothing wrong in performing rituals according to one's beliefs and culture.

There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.

My dad's Macedonian, mum Greek... so for as long as I can remember, my uncles have talked about our warrior blood.