Malachi Kirby Quotes

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

You want to try to find your heritage.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

Europe has been in my bones.

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

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.

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.

I know where I come from and what my roots are.

I'm part German and part Irish. In fact, there's even a town in Germany that was named after my family, Limbach or so forth. And I don't know. I might even have some Indian blood in there.

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

I love my heritage!

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

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

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.