Ancestry Quote by Mick Taylor

My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague.

— Malachi Kirby

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

— Junot Diaz

It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a…

— Spencer Wells

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

— Teresa Heinz

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

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

— Henry Louis Gates

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

Obviously I descend from Africa.

— Eric Reid

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

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

— Damian Marley

Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.

— Alice Merton

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

— Jeremy Paxman