Parents

"People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents."

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

"Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on."

"My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together."

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."

"Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being."

"Is there anything more important than a child?"

"A woman becomes a responsible parent when she quit being an obedient child."

"Your parents don't teach you how to heal, experience does."

"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together."

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."