Personal History Quotes

"We are what we are because we have been what we have been." "I believe in the idea that where you come from is important" "My Mexican roots are my pride and inspiration." "I make jokes about it, but I've always been very partial to my Southern roots." "Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title." "You have to excavate your own identity and where it is you've come from to be able to violent history " "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was"