Family Quote by Sixto Rodriguez

My parents immigrated to California from Mexico in the 1960s in search of a better life. They arrived from different regions of Mexico with…

— Alex Padilla

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with…

— Junot Diaz

My mother's family migrated from Mexico to Colorado and then to the Salinas Valley of California. My father was based there, they met at…

— Ron Rivera

My parents came here from Colombia during a time of great instability there. Escaping a dire economic situation at home, they moved to New…

— Diane Guerrero

I was born and raised in Chicago, but lived for a while in Mexico, the son of immigrants. We lived in Mexico, part time,…

— Ruben Gallego

My grandfather was born in Mexico. And when he was a young man, he crossed the Rio Grande. After that, he served in our…

— Catherine Cortez-Masto

My family were from Jamaica.

— Diane Abbott

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

— Q'orianka Kilcher

I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ourselves - the white people were there, and we were here,…

— Wes Studi

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

— Eric Balfour

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

— Kehinde Wiley

My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a…

— Stana Katic