Roots Quotes

Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.

OMI
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

V. S. Naipaul
- Question
- Simple
- Thought

I'm not an R&B singer, I'm a singer. I can sing any music that makes me feel inspired whether it's Country, a little bit of Rock and roll but within my roots as well. I'm not going too far with it, but it'll be within my roots. I feel like trying a different way to express my music because so many people have already taken from what I've done in the past and it kind of makes me not want to ever do anything that I've done before.

Brandy
- Music
- Country
- Inspired
Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.

Ilan Stavans
- People
- America
- Spanish
I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
- Doing
- Looking
- Roots
I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.

Zendaya
- Day
- Hair
- End
I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Speech
- Roots
- Grass
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

Umberto Eco
- People
- Good
- Bad