Affinity Quote by Herman Cain

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

— Isaac Wright Jr

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

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

— Nipsey Hussle

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this…

— Yvette Clarke

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

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

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

In the United States, if you're African-American, it can be assumed that your family has been here for generations. In Europe, colonialism is much…

— Zazie Beetz

Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are…

— Isabel Wilkerson

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

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

— Richard Leakey

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