African american Quote by Kehinde Wiley

My dad's from Barbados, but I lived with my mum. She brought me up; my uncle took me to the football. I grew up…

— Ashley Cole

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from the States, so even in my family when I was growing up, my mom…

— Sam Richardson

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but…

— Taiye Selasi

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

My family is from Morocco, and I was born and raised in Canada, but I'm an Indian at heart, for sure.

— Nora Fatehi

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

— Shay Mitchell

My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren - and then there's my son. So, it's a biracial family.

— Larry Harvey

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

— Vic Mensa

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

— Nipsey Hussle

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

— Condoleezza Rice

I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.

— Toks Olagundoye