African american Quote by Henry Louis Gates

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

“Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University, a specialist in DNA studies, says: ‘Every non-African in Australia, America, Siberia, Iceland, Europe, China, and India can trace…

— Andrew Marr

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more…

— Bryan Sykes

To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully…

— Alex Haley

Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can go back…

— Henry Louis Gates

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

— Henry Louis Gates

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come…

— Joseph Wambaugh

What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of…

— Spencer Wells

“Why? There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That’s why I needed ancestry.com.”

— Gordon Korman

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

— Malachi Kirby

If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated from Africa.…

— Runoko Rashidi

The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in…

— Ishmael Reed