Ancestor Quote by Trevor McDonald

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota…

— Richie Havens

My grandfather is from Burma and while the tanned skin and Cleopatra eyes skipped my genetic make-up, I inherited the full hairy gene.

— Stacey Solomon

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 father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her…

— Ice T

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

— Dev Patel

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

— Merry Clayton

My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

— Anand Giridharadas

I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.

— Keiynan Lonsdale

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

— V. S. Naipaul

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

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea

— Mick Taylor

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only…

— Robert Barry