Actually Quote by Isaac Wright Jr

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

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

— Cory Booker

I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.

— Kevin Young

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

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery.…

— Herman Cain

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

— Constance Baker Motley

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

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 mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota…

— Richie Havens

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.

— Edward Ball

I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr