Ancestry Quote by Henry Louis Gates

I finally got to watch 'Roots' in my mid-teens, on a video rental. Slowly and meticulously Roots fed its black characters through the mincing…

— David Olusoga

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

— Junot Diaz

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea

— Mick Taylor

I have always found it curious that Americans consider Roots' an American story. I first watched it growing up in Zimbabwe, and I naturally…

— Rege-Jean Page

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

— Teresa Heinz

I'm connected with my indigenous roots.

— Taboo

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 understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With 'Roots,' I…

— Esai Morales

I never traced my roots, man. I only know that I'm a brother with a big heart - and that somebody brought my roots…

— Jesse White

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“GRANDPARENTS For many peoples of black Africa, ancestors are the spirits that live in the tree beside your house or in the cow grazing…

— Eduardo Galeano

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