Airmen Quote by Cuba Gooding, Jr

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

— Cory Booker

I am a descendant of slaves. My great grandmother Mary Thomas, born in 1865, was the child of a slave. That is just three…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

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

— Isaac Wright Jr

I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

— Adina Porter

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't…

— Michael Johnson

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

— Mary Renault

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

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

To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

— Muhammad Ali

Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.

— Anthony Hemingway