African american Quote by Nas

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

— Damian Marley

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

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

— Susan Lucci

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

— Amiri Baraka

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself…

— Ralph Ellison

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

— Garrison Keillor

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

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

— Vic Mensa

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little…

— Tracy Morgan

I come from a multicultural family.

— Sarah Jones

I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family…

— Diana Taurasi

I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico.

— Laurie Hernandez