Europe Quote by Alex Wagner

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

— Trevor McDonald

You know, yeah, my dad is white - he's American. His family has been in this country for many, many, many years. And the…

— Rachel Zegler

I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.

— Keiynan Lonsdale

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

— V. S. Naipaul

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

— Garrison Keillor

My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But I lose…

— Carlos Mencia

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota…

— Richie Havens

Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can go back…

— Henry Louis Gates

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

— Nas

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

— Susan Lucci

I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All…

— Vin Diesel

It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece together their…

— Jesmyn Ward