But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

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It is foolish for someone to seek credit for his ancestor's achievements.

Chinese proverbs
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We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

quote by Peter R. Grant
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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.

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The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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Dreams are voices of ancestors.

African proverbs
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Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

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Gospel

We are the children of light,
Wise, not companioned
By goats
In a condemned graveyard.

Backward blowing
Blizzards of memory
Flatten out
The genealogies.

But here a point,
The objective essence
We work in.
We shall not drink from the stink-pots.

Propaganda,
Gospel spread
With tin shovels,
We are this generation.

poem by Patrick Kavanagh
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No man can outwit the ancestors.

African proverbs
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Not even a knight bannarette.

Not even a knight bannerette.

Today some wannabees long to be
part of the aristocracy.
So they research their family tree
in search of noble ancestry.
They’re quite prepared to spend their brass
to prove that they are upper class.
I’m sad to say that most; alas
Find ancestors they’d rather pass
Although they hope they rarely find.
The noble blood they have in mind.
But plenty of the common kind.
The family legend’s undermined.
Eventually they realise.
The family legend’s based on lies.

Monday,16 August 2010
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poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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At Taormina every climb has its descent.

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

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Bloodline

Eternal the kiss I breath
Siphon your blood to me
Feel my wounds of your god
Forever rape mortality
I smell of death
I reek of hate
I will live forever
Lost child pay the dead
Bleeding screams of silence
In my veins your eternity

I'll kill you and your dreams tonight
Begin new life
Bleed your death upon me
Let your bloodline feed my youth

First breath born come alive learn to kill
Bloodfest awaits to feed your hunger
Dark side has no rival test your faith in blood
Night hides the hunting packs a feeding frenzy

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To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root.

Chinese proverbs
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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

quote by William Ralph Inge
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Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

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My life has been one long descent into respectability.

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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

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