Black Fathers Quotes

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

Jack Black

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

Lewis Black

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of which, for me, was his love of singing, which gave music a central place in our lives.

James Black

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

Lewis Black

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Hugo Black

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers – a great pity on both counts.

Shirley Chisholm

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

Ted Nugent

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

Willard Van Orman Quine

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I told them [the producers] I couldn’t compound the lie that Black fathers don’t care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

Esther Rolle

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

Leon Black

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Hugo Black

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

Black Kettle

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

Lewis Black

My family is part Creole, and we’re Indian, and we’re also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

Merry Clayton

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

Billy Graham

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

Wentworth Miller

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

David Oyelowo