It is logical that I experience both, not attempt to deny half my heritage.

And to fail in that was to deny their own heritage.

The narrator has been trying since the opening chapter to deny his heritage, to act like an educated white man.

He couldn't very well say anything else, not without denying Gyongyos' heritage.

Yet we didn't want him to deny his Chinese heritage, either.

We are denied what everyone else takes for granted - our heritage.

For the first time since those long-past days he felt the fear that had made him deny his own heritage.

"Perhaps that old discrimination causes them to continue to deny their heritage."

"Do you think me blind, that you deny our common heritage?"

There was no way he could possibly have denied or hidden his heritage.