Born Quote by Kenneth Frazier

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

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

— Isaac Wright Jr

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

— Michael Johnson

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked…

— Paul Robeson

My grandfather James Peck was a civil rights activist.

— Justin Peck

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

— Muhammad Ali

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

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

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

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

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