Animated Quote by John Boyega

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language…

— John Boyega

I grew up with a single mum, an immigrant mum who couldn't speak the language, no money, three kids on her back, coming from…

— Ncuti Gatwa

My dad's Nigerian and I grew up in London, and that's just how it is.

— Emma Weymouth

I am as much British, white and working class, my mother's background, as I am black and Nigerian, my father's heritage.

— David Olusoga

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 is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.

— Cassie Ventura

My mom is a beautiful black woman, and my dad is an amazing white man, and I grew up seeing a family.

— Tamera Mowry

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

I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.

— Daniel Kaluuya

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who I am.…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and…

— Lianne La Havas

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales