Dad Quote by Steven Knight

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not…

— Toni Morrison

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they…

— Quincy Jones

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime,…

— Lee De Forest

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge…

— Kary Mullis

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were…

— David Alan Grier

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

— Claudette Colvin

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

— James Gray

I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s.

— Saul David

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be…

— Kathryn Stockett

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the…

— Kent Haruf

One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man; but one…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

— Peter Capaldi