Both my parents are Nigerian, but my mother worked…

My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He…

— Kehinde Wiley

I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures together just…

— MNEK

I come from a performing family. My parents are Nigerian, and their parents and their parents - and it's all about performance in their…

— Nnamdi Asomugha

Both of my parents were college-educated within the curriculum in Haiti. When they came to the United States, both had to learn English. My…

— Reggie Fils-Aime

I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book…

— Yung Lean

My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something…

— Sally Phillips

I grew up in the Middle East where my mother, who also worked as a journalist, had to wear long dresses with long sleeves…

— Katty Kay

My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My father was a banker, and my mother worked for the state government.

— Urmila Matondkar

My father worked three jobs, my mother worked two, seven days a week sometimes. And they wouldn't take welfare or social assistance, they were…

— Bill Duke

My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would…

— Ian Rankin

I come from a humble background. My dad moved to London 45 years ago and worked as a bus conductor whereas my mother worked…

— Raj Kundra

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose…

— Joyce Maynard

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

— Roger Ross Williams

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a…

— Edward P. Jones