During my childhood, my father, a Southern Baptist minister, and my mother, a teacher, made sure I took educational trips to cities such as Washington, D.C., Williamsburg, Va., Philadelphia, and Boston to learn about America's history.
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PAUL ROBESON I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S... TAIYE SELASI My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grim... GUNTER GRASS I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD My father had the knowledge and such a good work ethic that at times he was sent to Washington Natio... JOSEPH WEISS We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have ... SHEREEN EL FEKI My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history. ANGIE EVERHART My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so... A. R. RAHMAN My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my f... GREG KINNEAR My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... ROBERTO BENIGNI My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive.... SLOANE CROSLEY My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious. MISSI PYLE My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ... LAURA BENANTI My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and t... JOANNA GOING Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I foun... RASHID JOHNSON My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have t... BRUCE SMITH My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni... WALE My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid. DOROTHY MALONE My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried abou... PAULA DANZIGER My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen... JEFF KINNEY My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a le... SHEREEN EL FEKI When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ... MACKENZIE PHILLIPS Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, Fra... ANDREW SOLOMON My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very... DAVID GROSS My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us... CHUCK CLOSE I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. JENNIFER ANISTON I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became busines... MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix... TREVOR NOAH My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company. EVA HERZIGOVA My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house? SHERRILYN KENYON My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends... T.I. My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York... LYNN COLLINS I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father... CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father... CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was plante... ROWAN ATKINSON My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethio... LUCA GUADAGNINO Once my dad starts something, he never gives up. The church has been important to my mother and fath... ANGELA JACKSON My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats... YANCY BUTLER I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to ... GAYLE KING I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. SEAMUS HEANEY When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. EUZHAN PALCY And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wond... CHELSEA CLINTON My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such a... GALE GORDON I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking bac... DWYANE WADE My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew... MARGOT ROBBIE As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., cl... CHELSEA MANNING My brother Kobi made my mother very proud when he was elected deputy mayor of Jerusalem. My sister m... MOSHE KAHLON I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I... ED KOCH My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea p... FREEMAN A. HRABOWSKI III My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia. KANIEHTIIO HORN I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to ... STANLEY COHEN I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history... ELIZABETH OLSEN I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father GREG NORMAN I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&... JESSICA HAGEDORN My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's fra... MILLA JOVOVICH I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative... ED BEGLEY, JR. You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Pu... JENNIFER ESPOSITO I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som... MARGO JEFFERSON I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my... BARBRA STREISAND I talked it over with my parents (Wendy and Chris), my coach (Southern Connecticut's Tim Quill of Wo... BEN MICHAELSON I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my chi... PAT CONROY No, I never thought about my father's money as my money. CHRISTIE HEFNER My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i... KEKE PALMER It was a tough time. My father was ill and shortly thereafter my mom got sick (both would eventually... CAM NEELY Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan... TATUM O'NEAL I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. GREG NORMAN I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington... CHASKE SPENCER My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well... RICHIE HAVENS I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration c... GEORGE TAKEI It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's. HEATHER MILLS My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about scienc... ADA YONATH Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but... JOHN SULSTON My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. CARLISLE FLOYD In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my... DAVID BECKHAM I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free.... CARLA BLEY He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I w... ALEXANDRA KERRY If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I... SOPHIE KENNEDY CLARK I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's ca... KAY GRANGER
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