Parents

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

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."

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

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

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."

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

"Is there anything more important than a child?"

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

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

"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."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

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