Africa Quote by Antony Sher

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

— Antony Sher

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

— Damian Marley

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

— Norman Braman

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants…

— Alexis Denisof

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

— Angelina Jolie

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

— Herbie Mann

My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish…

— Francois Englert

My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.

— Bryce Dessner

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

— Vic Mensa

I grew up in Belgium and my best friends in school was one African kid and one from Asia.

— Nikola Vucevic

When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was…

— Elie Wiesel

My family were from Jamaica.

— Diane Abbott