My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value – I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone. 957
My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family. 650
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence. 2.33K
I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends. 714
I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife’s family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me. 635
The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family – my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid – to live in the apartment building. 2.36K
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values. 2.18K
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. 598
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. 592
My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. 652
