Columbus Quote by John Henrik Clarke

“My father loved my mother madly and when she died, he went gypsy, I was raised by strangers, farmed out. There were no rules…

— Victoria Wilson

My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a…

— Jesmyn Ward

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge…

— Kary Mullis

I came from an affluent family, am well-known and well-read.

— Manisha Koirala

Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of…

— Lee Smith

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the…

— R. Kelly

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs…

— Pat Conroy

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not…

— Lisa Marie Presley

I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up…

— Walter Dean Myers

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

My mom's family was farmers and coal miners. They were very hardworking folks. My dad was an attorney and ran his own firm. He…

— Kendra Scott

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner.…

— Harry Reid