I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'
Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most p...
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.
Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag.
Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie,” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think that way,” Nathan said.
In the aether I appear in fiery forms, And in the aer I sit in a silvery chariot; earth reigns in my black brood of puppies.
Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.
I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.
Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.
