Interracial Family Quotes

#1. I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

Annie Ilonzeh

#2. The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

Tom Morello

#3. Be nice to his family. Pretend not to notice the way their house smells. Pretend to like their food. Mimic their barbaric customs at the dinner table.

Laura Yes Yes

#4. Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

Chris Evans

#5. This was the woman Narasimhan had married, as opposed to whatever girl from Madras his family wanted for him. Subhash wondered how his family reacted to her. He wondered if she'd ever been to India. If she had, he wondered whether she'd liked it or hated it. He could not guess from looking at her

Jhumpa Lahiri

#6. PAUL: ...We're a very close family. We don't take kindly to people playing Daily Mail on our family for no good reason.

Billy London

#7. Honour and I would have to create our world, live by our own rules. My family wasn't ready for her just yet.

I didn't know if they ever would be.

Ruth Ahmed

#8. Her father was an intimidating man who held fast to his belief in his African heritage; that black should not marry white to avoid racial confusion. She was in love with a white man whose mother wished to keep her family's heritage intact by not crossbreeding with another race.

Katherine Vogel

#9. After he told them we were dating, which came out more like a Cultural Revolution confession than a family heart-to-heart, his father said flatly, "You can be friends with a foreign woman, but not date her.

Jocelyn Eikenburg

#10. I read once that the act of observing changes the nature of what is observed.

Christina Baker Kline

#11. All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Charles De Lint

#12. Forgiveness was not easy for someone like me. When it was granted, more often than not, I was just giving someone a second chance to hurt me.

Jamie McGuire

#13. He proceeded to give us directions in a lilting accent, which I found enormously entertaining. I loved hearing Welsh people talk, even if half of what they said was incomprehensible to me.

Ransom Riggs

#14. The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.

Swami Prabhavananda

#15. Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

Kazuo Ishiguro