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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
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"This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child's mind."
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"Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them."
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"In parenting patience is the greatest virtue."
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"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
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"Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them."
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"So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency."
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"When my son was a teenager, he would use the 'poker face' tactic when I was lecturing, nagging, or suggesting. As a parent, it was maddening because I could not read his reactions! His stoicism would sometimes deflate my efforts or make me surrender in laughter, changing the subject all together."
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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."
Cultural
"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian."
Thought
"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
Parenting
"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
Law
"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."
Leadership
"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
Encouragement
"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."
Change
"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."
Woman
"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."
Environment
"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."
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