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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.

People like to trace their ancestry.

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.

I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.