America Quote by Lena Waithe

My mother was this White woman from Texas, from a racist town raised to believe in the inferiority of others by her community, not…

— Maya Wiley

My mother was racist.

— Logic

My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of racism and…

— Hannah Bronfman

My mother is white. My biological father is black. When my mother was 17, she got pregnant. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at…

— Israel Houghton

I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an…

— Nipsey Hussle

So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that's when my mother transferred…

— Maya Wiley

My mother is an American.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I grew up going to a school where there weren't a lot of black kids. And so my mother, from a very, very young…

— Mellody Hobson

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us…

— James Earl Jones

In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.

— Ezekiel Emanuel

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.

— Tony Benn