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My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got…

— Lisa Kristine

My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval,…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started…

— Marcus Samuelsson

My parents were born here, but my abuelita was not - she came from Colombia in the '60s to have my mom.

— Rachel Zegler

My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money…

— Robin Lim

My mother was born in Ghana, but she moved to the U.K. when my sisters and I were born.

— Philomena Kwao

Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France,…

— Nelson Mandela

I was born in Senegal in 1996. My mom moved to New York when I was two years old, so I was raised by…

— Khoudia Diop

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

— Koichi Tanaka

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil…

— Uzo Aduba

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

— Jack Kingston

I don't think I knew how going to Ethiopia would affect my life, through a very simple choice of buying fair-trade coffee, we can…

— Hugh Jackman