Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.
I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo.
[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.
Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.
Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.
