135 Quotes About Ancestry

People who are ashamed of their heritage cannot be trusted.

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

I come from a long line of miserable people.

To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.

Loving who you came from is like looking into the mirror and loving yourself. Your ancestry is your reflection in the mirror.

One woman is a tiny divine spark in a timeless sisterhood tapestry collective;All of us are Wild Women.

Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright.

All modern humans are related to what scientists call "Mitochondrial Eve." This refers to our common matrilineal ancestor. She lived approximately 200,000 years ago and depending on how you estimate the length of a generation, we are only 5,000 to 10,000 generations from one another. To put it another way, each of us is a cousin of one another at most 10,000 times removed. And yes, Mitochondrial Eve lived in Africa, so, in a very real way, we are all Africans.

Many of these mixed-blood Indian people were eventually forced into hiding or denial of their Indian ancestry because of their fear of removal to the west by the United States Government.