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My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read…

— Taika Waititi

My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm…

— Dove Cameron

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of…

— August Wilson

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes…

— Barack Obama

My father and my mother raised me to be a determined young man, a respectful young man, a man of character.

— Jalen Hurts

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

— Kehinde Wiley

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made…

— Cicely Tyson

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

— Ellar Coltrane

Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that encouraged creative…

— Mary Pope Osborne

My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an…

— Christine Ebersole

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I…

— Michael Moriarty