Black Quote by James Ellroy

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.

— Alicia Vikander

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

As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or…

— Dustin Yellin

Motherhood brought me even closer to my own mother - I realised everything she'd been through.

— Amanda Redman

My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress,…

— Derek Walcott

I think of my mother constantly. And how she sacrificed her home and car for my freedom.

— Brian Banks

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

— Kiefer Sutherland

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

— Faye Dunaway

When I wrote 'The Shadow Thief,' I had an obsession with Peter Pan. I get focused on things. In fact, I was an absolute…

— Alexandra Adornetto

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

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother…

— George Hamilton

Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in…

— Mabel Cheung