The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.
I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.
I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.
Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.
To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.
There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.
One minute I was completely unknown, barely able to feed my family, living on pennies. The next minute, Katie Couric was interviewing me on the breakfast show.
My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.
I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.
I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.
In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.
