Born Quote by Danai Gurira

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

— Kehinde Wiley

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

— Vic Mensa

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy…

— Marta Kristen

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from the States, so even in my family when I was growing up, my mom…

— Sam Richardson

I'm a guy who was born in Cincinnati and whose entire family except for my mother still lives in Cincinnati - my grandmother, aunts,…

— Tom Herman

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

— Carlos Mencia

My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister…

— Julie Salamon

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my…

— Terry Gross

I'm half-Chinese and half-Caucasian. My grandparents came here from China. My father was born in New Jersey.

— Phillipa Soo

My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own…

— Yara Shahidi

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

— Kwame Nkrumah

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie