Africa Quote by Damian Marley

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

It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a…

— Spencer Wells

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

— Kwame Nkrumah

All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans…

— Kwame Nkrumah

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

— Albert Schweitzer

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

— Richard Leakey

We're all related. We're all a family.

— Jack Johnson

My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague.

— Malachi Kirby

Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

— Angelique Kidjo

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

— Antony Sher

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself…

— Ralph Ellison

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.

— Svante Paabo