My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.
Having the last name 'Bloomberg' sucks.
Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.
Having the name 'Bloomberg' doesn't help me in any way... and it really is a disadvantage and takes away from the image I'm trying to portray.
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.
I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.
If I'm 'the kid from 'Hereditary'' for the rest of my life, I'll be satisfied.
I've always been Ralphie, ever since I was a kid. My grandfather was Ralph. It suits me better to be Ralphie.
I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.
Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
Graham was my father's second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool.
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
