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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. William Inge

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I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was? Jesmyn Ward

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People like to trace their ancestry. Richard Dawkins

People Ancestry Like Trace

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. Alex Haley

Family You Every Earth Ancestry About Talking Lineage Person Start

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. Alice Walker

You Become Ancestry Adult Part Cherokee Tradition

Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it. Cass Sunstein

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I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks. Diana Quick

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Latinos are not monochromatic. You know, they trace their ancestry back to South America, to Central America, to Mexico, like in my family, and the Caribbean. And it's - we're a very diverse group. And we care about a lot more than just immigration, though we're passionate about having sensible immigration policies that don't go after our families. Eric Garcetti

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In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white. Henry Louis Gates

You Black Drop Brazil White Ancestry Almost Makes America

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry. Jamie Cullum

Mother Father Ancestry German Scottish English Near Nowhere Jewish

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable. Jeff Hawkins

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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. John Phillips Marquand

Few Ancestry Worthwhile Generations Him Behind Anyone Hard-Working Honest

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould. Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Life Broken Women Men Every Society Our Rule Sphere Ancestry East Indian No Exception Exception Almost Cultural Women Are Mould

My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything. Laurence Yep

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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution? Lynn Margulis

There are still Negro elites. Many of them are obviously much richer, and perhaps a little more integrated into what remains a white power structure. But those old rituals from the social clubs, to the broadly segregated white and black schools, to an obsessive interest in ancestry, all of that does still exist. Look: we are a class-bound society. Margo Jefferson

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I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry. Maya Rudolph

Guilt Ancestry Get Anxious Lovely Jewish

I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point. Michael Portillo

Speak Language Indeed Ancestry Point Up Spanish

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. Octavia E. Butler

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Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. Paul P. Harris

I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It's there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter. Peter Doig

Me Every Summer Way Indeed Ancestry Visiting Would Would-Be Some Pushing Feel Am Label Scottish Child Maybe Anywhere Grandparents Painter Aware Right Here

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