British Quote by Jesmyn Ward

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

I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to…

— John Edgar Wideman

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part…

— James A. Michener

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

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor,…

— Pete Seeger

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

— Cory Booker

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is…

— Alicia Keys

Ethnically I am a mix of many, many, many things.

— Hilaria Baldwin

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who I am.…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of white Americans…

— Alex Wagner

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed…

— Soledad O'Brien