Betrayed Quote by Fred D'Aguiar

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

— Kaya Scodelario

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

— Jessica Mauboy

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

— Norman Braman

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

— Albert Schweitzer

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 great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a…

— Aliko Dangote

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

— Tom Morello

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.

— Tom Morello

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he…

— Lupita Nyong'o

My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

— Benjamin Bratt

My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from more of…

— Chuka Umunna