Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.
My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.
I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.
Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.
Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three.
My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
For Shama and her sisters and women like them, ambition, if the word could be used, was a series of negatives; not to be unmaried, not to be childless, not to be an undutiful daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow.
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.
