[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, bu….

I got born in the wrong family..

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow..

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents..

I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want..

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessnes….

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were..

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away..

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love..

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five..

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a dif….

This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone..

Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It i….

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming roun….

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying a….

My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child..

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, ….

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going..

If pain is truly love, for my family I die..

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then..

Mostly your love is passionate force. But when this passionate force turns itself to be a compassionate force under the guidance of compassionate int….