My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the personal experiences of racism and the lessons of excellence and resilience taught by one's parents.
Lizzo's quote highlights the profound impact that parental guidance and personal experiences of racism have on one's understanding of excellence and the importance of legacy. It emphasizes that those who have faced discrimination develop a unique perspective on life, which informs their values and shaping their identity, differing from those who have never encountered such challenges.
In practice
During a speech about diversity, one could use this quote to illustrate the importance of understanding individual experiences.
Minneapolis just embraced me. There are a lot of weirdos here. It's awesome, because I'm a weirdo. Thankfully, the city embraced me with open arms. A lot about Minneapolis helped carve my musicality and open my eyes. The whole town is so open-minded compared to like, you know, Texas.
I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.
I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.
I'm glad I'm a woman; I'm glad I'm a rapper because I get to speak to these people who did not get spoken for in this genre.
Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
Let us be a temple-attending people. Attend the temple as frequently as personal circumstances allow. Keep a picture of a temple in your home that your children may see it. Teach them about the purposes of the House of the Lord. Have them plan from their earliest years to go there and to remain worthy of that blessing.
I tried during the 1974 campaign to show my husband not as the aloof intellectual people think he is, but the warm, passionate man I know. But the day after the election - after I'd worked so hard - I was put back on the shelf. I was devastated.
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.
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