The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
Interpretation
The future of the Black family will empower individuals and influence their aspirations.
Dorothy Height emphasizes the crucial role that the Black family plays in promoting liberation, self-worth, and the formulation of personal and collective goals. The Black family structure is portrayed as a fundamental source of strength and inspiration, indicating that the values nurtured within these families can lead to greater societal progress and individual fulfillment.
In practice
This quote could be used in a community meeting discussing family values
I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding
Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit
We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.
My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth
I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.
Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.
I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I'm fortunate.
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesnβt matter what body it came out of. Iβve never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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