Quotes About Ancestry

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

Black Girl Magic means that I have the power to overcome anything. Especially when we're in a world where you're told that you can't do something or you're less than, I'm reminded that my ancestors have overcome so much. There's still so much work to be done, and I have the power to overcome it.

Every time I introduce myself, I'm reminded where I came from.

I've inherited a Jewish sensibility and sense of humor from my parents and all those who came before me. All the Jewish comedians, character actors and writers I was exposed to also reminded me of my family in their sense of humor.

My dad does a good job of reminding me where I came from.

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.

I believe my last name Hunt is an anglicized version of O'Fianna.

I am a born hunter, like my father, my grandfather, and every man of my family before them.

It's our roots that really give us our identity.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

I was born to an illustrious family in Hyderabad.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

I didn't know anyone in my family who acted; no one in my immediate family did any acting.

I was 7 years old when 'Roots' was first broadcast, and my parents gathered all us kids around the TV to learn about how we got here. But it wasn't until I sat down and immersed myself in the research that I got the barest inkling of what it meant to be a slave.

Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you're seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents' stories, are your great-grandparents' stories. You just happen to be separated from them a little bit.

It is important to know where you come from.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.