Top 18 African Ancestry Quotes
#1. Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'
Randall Kennedy
#2. My accent is of African ancestry and so is my origin and I have no intention to change any of it. Therefore nobody should expect me to fraudulently behave as if I was anything else.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#3. 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 journey from an African homeland to wherever you live.
Spencer Wells
#4. Ilya, what do you want?" His smile vanished. When he contemplated his vision, his gaze narrowed until Tess could almost imagine it as a single beam, piercing to the heart of the universe, capable of vaporizing any object that stood in its path. "The world.
Kate Elliott
#5. You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.
Boris Yeltsin
#6. Mr Tanner frowned at him, as though he was a spelling mistake.
Tom Holt
#7. Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
Henry Louis Gates
#8. Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.
Marcus Garvey
#9. The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.
Ishmael Reed
#10. I can't do anything about my past, but I can do a lot to cooperate with my destiny. I am re-created in Christ Jesus, born anew, that I might do the good works that he laid out for me and live the good life.
Joyce Meyer
#11. Our archaeological ancestry lost hair while growing sweat glands to reduce panting in the hot African sun. One outcome evolved the origin of our speech. Another conquered our ability to shut the hell up and listen. Now? Politicians grunting "On the Origin of Speeches" past one another.
Brian Spellman
#12. Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.
Mick Taylor
#13. There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.
James D'arcy
#14. You could have had this instead. But going back is false. Moving ahead is false. Looking the other way is false. Trying to redress all that is false turns out to be just as false.
Andre Aciman
#15. My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#16. In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
Maimonides
#17. The arm was the arm, and it was the arm - not her husband, or even herself - that she thought about seven years later, on June 28, 1941, as the first German war blasts shook her wooden house to its foundations, and her eyes rolled back in her head to view, before dying, her insides.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#18. Nothing in life
comes easy.
Everything
comes with
a sacrifice
Rihanna
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