Civil rights Quote by Kenya Barris

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a…

— Yaya DaCosta

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

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

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as…

— Janis Ian

I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.

— Amiri Baraka

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

— Killer Mike

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.

— Tom Morello

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Too Short

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

— Simon van der Meer

I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three…

— Ira Sachs

When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members…

— Dikembe Mutombo