African american Quote by Greg Iles

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

My father was a doctor.

— David Alan Grier

I was not yet 4-years-old when my dad died from a rare, but treatable virus. He had just been sent home from the hospital…

— Wes Moore

We were from a predominantly white area, my dad was black and my mum was white, so that had its complications.

— Jermaine Jenas

A lot of people don't know that my father is black

— Ryan Giggs

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

— Constance Baker Motley

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients…

— Rebecca Skloot

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

— Henry Louis Gates

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.

— Hill Harper

Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!

— Sherri Shepherd

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

— Robert Winston