Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school. ”

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore. ”

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can. ”

I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen. ”

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house. ”

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. ”

All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?' ”

I am the flower child who will not wilt. You couldn't have asked for anything more. ”

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. ”

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ”