African Quote by Cory Booker

My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.

— Nancy Pelosi

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar…

— Keegan-Michael Key

A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime…

— James Forman, Jr

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a…

— Christopher Hitchens

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know,…

— Christopher Walken

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

— Sidney Poitier

My mother raised me herself, along with my six younger siblings, in Cleveland, and life wasn't easy even in the best of times. At…

— Nina Turner

My father was not in power when I started my political career, or when I fought my first election in 1996. Starting like any…

— Mehbooba Mufti

I spent almost two years trying to get my father elected president.

— Meghan McCain

My dad grew up really poor in Mississippi. I paid attention to that because I thought that's a healthier thing to pay attention to…

— Anderson Cooper

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

— Constance Baker Motley

I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play…

— Olivia Hussey