"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."

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"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

Family, Brother

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Up, Believe

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Children, Clothes

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Blessed, Womb, Birth, Mother

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Family, Partnership, Decision, Teamwork

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Family, Ideal, Relationship, Life

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Father, Speak, Hear, Trust

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Family, Nostalgia, Memory, Comfort, Love

"Children are angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Angels, Blessing, Divine

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Family, Rules, Rebellion, Youth, Identity

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"In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man."

Work

"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."

Family

"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."

Positive

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."

Perfection

"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."

Life

"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."

Bed

"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

Life

"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."

Compliment

"I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people."

People