After Quote by Kathryn Stockett

With just an elementary school education, my father worked as a short order cook for forty years before retirement. He liked to boast that…

— Alex Padilla

My dad is black and my mom is white. It was not in vogue to be an interracial couple in the 1970s in South…

— Will Hurd

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

— Billy Graham

I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the…

— Daniel Boulud

Our family is mixed. My oldest sister married a black man in 1962, which was way out there then.

— Duff McKagan

"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

— Carine Roitfeld

What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time…

— Pinetop Perkins

My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the…

— Willard Scott

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a…

— Kary Mullis

I grew up in a house that was the traditional African-American home that was dominated by a matriarch, and that matriarch was my grandmother.…

— Bryan Stevenson

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 mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.

— John Hickenlooper