Father Quote by Chuka Umunna

My parents were among the first families from their area to leave Nigeria and come to America, the land of the free.

— Nnamdi Asomugha

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and…

— Eugene Jarecki

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

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

— Sidney Poitier

My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of the army…

— W. G. Sebald

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil…

— Uzo Aduba

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

— Norman Braman

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.

— Patrick Cox

My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age 32, leaving…

— Dianne Feinstein

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

— Fred D'Aguiar

On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an…

— Alexis Ohanian