Parents

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

"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."

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

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

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

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

"The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."

"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."

"To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."