Ancestry Quote by Anonymous

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to…

— Bob Edwards

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able…

— Henry Louis Gates

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed…

— Angela Davis

My parents came from the south. So their ancestors were actually slaves in this country.

— Isaac Wright Jr

I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times…

— Laura Lippman

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

— Colson Whitehead

“In addition, the most reliable and recent studies of African tribal culture demonstrated that slavery was a long-standing custom among the Africans themselves, so…

— Joseph J. Ellis

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney

I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.

— Cory Booker