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"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."
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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
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"My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months."
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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"
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"I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."
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"The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city."
Life
"I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs."
People
"I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds."
Crowds
"I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe."
July
"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
Law
"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."
Mother
"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."
Panama
"It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here."
People
"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel."
Money
"What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off."
People
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