Ancestors Quote by Jesmyn Ward

Most black families have roots, whether Christian, Muslim or other religions, and that journey is unique for each individual.

— Omar Epps

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

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if…

— Henry Louis Gates

One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken…

— Xavier Woods

It's hard for a black man to raise a family.

— Snoop Dogg

There are so many families who do not come up in a traditional household. African Americans, Latins, and, I'm sure, whites as well, but…

— Salim Akil

Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there.

— Zach Braff

Our family is mixed. My oldest sister married a black man in 1962, which was way out there then.

— Duff McKagan

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

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

— Trevor McDonald

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

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

— Courtney A. Kemp