Dad Quote by Cord Jefferson

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart,…

— Lisa Bonet

I always assumed I'd marry a black woman.

— Trip Lee

A black woman carried you in her womb for 9 months, then she raised you for 18 years, and now you're out here bashing…

— Sonya Parker

I grew up going to a school where there weren't a lot of black kids. And so my mother, from a very, very young…

— Mellody Hobson

As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting…

— John Piper

Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If…

— Thomas Sowell

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

— Andre Rieu

My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice…

— Jenny Zhang

My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again.…

— John Henrik Clarke

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

— Jaye Davidson

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

— Giancarlo Esposito

My mother was this White woman from Texas, from a racist town raised to believe in the inferiority of others by her community, not…

— Maya Wiley