Wangechi Mutu Quotes

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

Europe has been in my bones.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

We should not ignore or isolate our roots, no matter where we stay.

You can't run from your roots.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

It is important to know where you come from.

When we were children, we were told that we have a motherland, and that motherland was Spain. However, we have discovered later, in our lives, that as a matter of fact, we have several motherlands. And one of the greatest motherlands of all is, no doubt, Africa.

I'm actually Hispanic, and my mother is Puerto Rican.

My whole identity comes from Pakistan.

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

You can't forget your roots.

You can't really run from your roots.

My lineage is partially Irish.

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

I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.

Greek blood courses through me.

Everybody comes from somewhere.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

I love my heritage!

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.